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Julia Evans Dec 19, 2024

I don't know if it's possible to get a good answer to this but: if you learned how to make websites with, like, users who can login and do things where the website stores stuff in a database, without doing it as a job, how did you do it?

I feel like in principle I know all of the basic pieces (HTTP, HTML, CSS, SQL, CORS, various programming languages, etc), but also somehow it still feels extremely hard to me

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J. David Eisenberg

@b0rk I took the coward’s way out and used .htaccess for logins. The rest of the site *does* use a database, so I have that part figured out, much of it by trial and error. It’s the login and checking every time they go to a page to see if they’re still authenticated that has me flummoxed. This is one of those places where a framework like Flask might really have come in handy.