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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If I remember correctly, my first non-work site that enabled login and content edit was PHP and CouchDB (that is, a document database) which enabled reasonable content submissions and update and whatnot, simple user accounts (documents…) and basically “easy” starts… this was a reasonable way to learn about the things that would be easier if __ and so on.
Not secure, not something I would hold up as an example, but a good learning experience for me.
Almost right after was work PHP+PG…
(I haven´t used PHP for anything since, this was around 2005)
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