Here's how I would approach it, without spending too much time whiteboarding/architecting the solution (as it seems like it's a hobby project).
Start on the backend
Database
How are you going to store the cars and their state ("occupied", "available")? Which database?
What attributes does the car need (colour, year, make, model etc)?
Define your database schema, and build your database.
CRUD operations
Build an API (what's your language of choice?), which can call the Database and create/read/update and delete cars.
Start on the frontend
Build a frontend that consumes your API and lists the cars, their state, and the attributes.
Extend the frontend to include a form to create a new car
Extend the frontend to update a car
Extend the frontend to delete a car
Make it look better with styling etc.
Login page
Do you need this? If you're just starting out, I would try and stay away from this for now. Get everything above working and then come back and get some help as you'll need to create a users table, with password hashes and salts, and be able to handle JWT's etc.
Hi Si, thank for your answer and guidelines, I have answered your questions below:
Database
Cars state: Occupied, available.
Car attributes: 3 predefined models ( keeping it simple )
CRUD operations
What's your language of choice? Was thinking of using Vue, since I am a beginner ( learned some VanillaJs ) and React might be too much of a challenge.
This are also the challenges that I am facing:
Build a frontend that consumes your API and lists the cars, their state, and the attributes.
Extend the frontend to include a form to create a new car
Extend the frontend to update a car
Extend the frontend to delete a car
Login page - not necessary, but some kind of authentication would be needed.
Like I have said, I am a beginner and I have been going through a Front-End Handbook to expand my knowledge, because there are a lot of unknowns, even with a simple app such as this one, that I need to find answers too.
What's your language of choice? Was thinking of using Vue, since I am a beginner ( learned some VanillaJs ) and React might be too much of a challenge.
It sounds like you're only thinking about the frontend. If you want to build an API that your frontend will consume you need to look into a JavaScript framework like Express.js. I recently wrote an article on how to write such an API over on CodeTips, here, that you might find useful.
Edit: If you're just beginning, you might actually find it useful going through some of the more "beginner friendly" articles on CodeTips first.
Edit 2: Also, if you need more real-time feedback/help, there is also a CodeTips slack channel
Here's how I would approach it, without spending too much time whiteboarding/architecting the solution (as it seems like it's a hobby project).
Start on the backend
Database
CRUD operations
Start on the frontend
Login page
Hi Si, thank for your answer and guidelines, I have answered your questions below:
Database
CRUD operations
This are also the challenges that I am facing:
Login page - not necessary, but some kind of authentication would be needed.
Like I have said, I am a beginner and I have been going through a Front-End Handbook to expand my knowledge, because there are a lot of unknowns, even with a simple app such as this one, that I need to find answers too.
It sounds like you're only thinking about the frontend. If you want to build an API that your frontend will consume you need to look into a JavaScript framework like
Express.js. I recently wrote an article on how to write such an API over on CodeTips, here, that you might find useful.Edit: If you're just beginning, you might actually find it useful going through some of the more "beginner friendly" articles on CodeTips first.
Edit 2: Also, if you need more real-time feedback/help, there is also a CodeTips slack channel
I know, not used to thinking about the Backend, will checkout Express.js. Thank you for the Slack invite.
Nice Approach!