I'm currently working on a project that I have designed myself. It is a platform with community and educational features for neuro-atypical people. The entire thing is built on Next JS and uses a bunch of microservices for authentication, payments, emailing, database and content management, etc. I'm using typescript react and chakra UI to code all the front-end. There's very little 'back-end' to be done on this project, and I'm not there yet. I am blown away by how much web technologies have evolved in the past 3-4 years—layers upon layers of abstractions. Take Chakra UI, for example; it is comprised of ready-made UI parts that you customize by applying attributes directly on them. The approach is very different from writing your own CSS; theming is handled with specific theme-extension objects. I see how this can save time; it just takes some learning. So far, I'm at 30% of the project, and I'm beginning to understand better react. My brain loves it.
i remember back in the day people had to buy books and look at source code on random websites and horribly designed forums.
now we have slick documentation for open source libraries, and seamless deployment pipelines : )
great time to be in