After completing my React Advanced course, I’ve been playing around with different projects in hopes of using some of the material I’ve learned from it.
With that, I’ve been attempting to branch out into other parts of web programming, specifically learning about backend processes.
An example web app I’ve been creating to accomplish that task is an entirely ✨AI-generated✨ single page recipe blog that would refresh with a newly generated recipe daily, while including a recipe blog’s stereotypes of long sections of yap about their grandma making their favoroute dish of quinua, with annoying SEO keywords everywhere. But it would be in the style of a celebrity, making it a game of guessing who the author celebrity is.
Most of the project has been relearning or learning basic features, such as hosting a basic Node.js server to handle requests to OpenAI and specifying it to return objects, learning what a SQL DB is, creating webhooks for the front end to call, and incorporating more Typescript safety in my functions, as, unfortunately, that was not included as part of the learning course.
Along with the backend, I’ve been playing around with libraries like Tailwind CSS, essentially a tool for adding CSS styling to Javascript. It also makes the task of uglifying code much easier to accomplish
A lot of the “relearning” causes the project to take longer, so I can properly learn the concepts with the help of the Chat gippitys and Claudia. I’m also trying not to make AI a crutch for me but rather use it as a teaching tool for explaining features in a way that’s personalized to my project.
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