I believe the most difficult thing I ever had to code was my web page. Not so much the one I have now but the layout I originally intended for it. I just never seem to be able to get it the way I want it. Ever since the arrival of the smartphone, websites have had to be responsive and look good on phones but this does not go too well with the type of look I am going for which is a classic late 90s/early 2000s website with a kawaii theme. I am positive I will figure it out with time as long as I keep at it though.
What is the most difficult thing you ever had to code?
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The content of the question reminds me of when we used to use images to create rounded corners on websites before CSS3.
The crazy thing is how obsessed we were with bizarre page layouts that necessitated these hacks. People had fewer tools and also designed crazier websites. They were always difficult.
But the real answer to the question for me are any times when the code needs to be in tight coordination with deployment as to not break anything. Meaning caches or data typically. Those are the toughest challenges I have to deal with.
Deploying without breaking prod is a skill that you only acquire after messing up
I have worked on an exam monitoring system using websockets for webrtc and malpractice alerts in real time. Another project was when i had to use mqtt to connect to an embedded device & provide real time monitoring with AI predictions served from a pipeline for 3 models via websockets in React, i had to also include real time messages via websockets with in app caching for chats. I'm currently building a web based 3d model editor.
Like everything we do... it just takes practice.
If you've built one website a year... you're not gonna get good at it.
You need to pump out multiple layouts and multi-templated sites that are responsive if you hope to get good at doing responsive frontend development.
There are very few devs who are really good at that.
A LOT of devs can build some fancy thing on desktop, but then can't make it responsive.
And plenty of devs can do responsive, but can't handle complex animations, or code them in a way that lasts for a few years and doesn't break due to updates in the libraries and scripts they use.
Nothing we do is hard. It just takes time to learn. And once you learn it, you won't why it was ever hard... if only someone had given you the steps to properly do it.
That being said, the most difficult things i've had to code.
Not sure, I've built custom calculators, built design tools, built image manipulation tools, built a social network, built a gaming site, built a site crawler, built my own caching stuff.
Some of it was hard at the time, but only because it required effort. Once i found the solution, looking back, it wasn't hard to do.
Knowing is half the battle
I decided to make a project called "can I lick it." It is basically where you can enter the name, number, or symbol of an element on the periodic table, and then it would tell you if it is safe to lick, as well as some information about it. Right now, I am around 60 elements in. Rather than just using an API for the data, I decided to put all of it in JSON. I have taken a break as this has been a long boring process, but I feel to deep to stop.
Recently in my job, the most difficult thing I had to do it's manage a background process to download invoices, extract the data, and show to user in real time the extracted data, and then he can replace some data, and if he send the changes, now in real time everyone can see the changes of that invoice and then in background again process every relation with that invoice and change it. (Everything was using WebSockets & Channels in Go)
Honestly, one of my old school assignments comes to mind; we had to implement tcp communication with c++(I started on that first minute but still only barely finished in time before it was due)
My answer these days would be front end related stuff since there's so many quirks and unexpected things happening
I had to use trigonometry in order to create a perfect 3d carousel using Three.js with Next.js as a framework. It is a interactive carousel where lots of images made a shape of ring and you can move it through mouse pointer and scroll. Never thought I'll apply trigonometry in web development😝, still it was great experience.
It's something that I'm working on at the moment actually: a torrenting library w/ async/parallel computing (not sure what to call it :p) in Rust. What's challenging about it isn't the async or parallel stuff -- there's plenty of documentation out there for that, and after a while, it's (kinda) standard. The hard part is the severe lack of documentation for anything BitTorrent related. I've been working off of enhancement proposals and godawful source code for the last 3 months now (please document your code! and please don't make 25 different repos for tools that could be contained in a single repo!). Even then, the stuff for Bittorrent could be worse, but the stuff for WebTorrent couldn't.
Anything visual is hard for me. I can't "create" layouts in my mind, just ideas, concepts, raw text. And that is though, because I really need a new portfolio site and I spend hours thinking just on content and not on how to make it stunning.
I am working at India based top metaverse development company, coding has become part of my life and I love to face the challenges which helps me in improving my coding skills.As per my point of view challenges may come in code but you have to take in positive way also.
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