100%. Just build something as simply as you can. It's the optimal solution for most cases. Pick a web frawework (Laravel, Rails, whatever) and maybe a front end framework and just build it to deploy locally. Don't worry about optimisation, serverless etc and deploy by hand. In a proper team that's well funded that stuff makes sense, but trust me, you'll add it when you need it.
I'm a professional and know how to do all that stuff for my actual job, but I don't have time to run my side projects "perfectly", but they still hum along and nobody dies!
100%. Just build something as simply as you can. It's the optimal solution for most cases. Pick a web frawework (Laravel, Rails, whatever) and maybe a front end framework and just build it to deploy locally. Don't worry about optimisation, serverless etc and deploy by hand. In a proper team that's well funded that stuff makes sense, but trust me, you'll add it when you need it.
I'm a professional and know how to do all that stuff for my actual job, but I don't have time to run my side projects "perfectly", but they still hum along and nobody dies!
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Daragh Byrne ・ Jan 17 ・ 5 min read
That’s a fantastic post! Thank you