My biggest struggle as a Frontend-dev is the hassle setting up all the backend stuff.
Of Course, there are plenty tutorials on doing things with create-react-app, or the whole redux stuff. But I don't want to host my projects on some "free" services and/or can't afford (afaik) a node.js webserver. So in order to utilize React I would have to take the route via gatsby plus wordpress and if I want to add some neat GraphQL I have to put in some additional PHP plugins. All that adds so many layers of complexity that building a "real world application" which I could use for real-life projects of mine seems impossible.
Oh man. Yes! I abhor the complexity as well, given the little free time I have outside of work and family.
But you can get a node.js React app hosted on a free service that's decent like Netlify without the complexity you're talking about. Is that something you've looked into and just didn't like/didn't work out for you?
I never considered netlify but have taken a look into it. It seems promising for some testing at least. Thank you!
I still will have to set up the whole php backend-shizzle because I have to host the project on some servers of our university and need other people be able to manage the content...
My biggest struggle as a Frontend-dev is the hassle setting up all the backend stuff.
Of Course, there are plenty tutorials on doing things with create-react-app, or the whole redux stuff. But I don't want to host my projects on some "free" services and/or can't afford (afaik) a node.js webserver. So in order to utilize React I would have to take the route via gatsby plus wordpress and if I want to add some neat GraphQL I have to put in some additional PHP plugins. All that adds so many layers of complexity that building a "real world application" which I could use for real-life projects of mine seems impossible.
Oh man. Yes! I abhor the complexity as well, given the little free time I have outside of work and family.
But you can get a node.js React app hosted on a free service that's decent like Netlify without the complexity you're talking about. Is that something you've looked into and just didn't like/didn't work out for you?
I never considered netlify but have taken a look into it. It seems promising for some testing at least. Thank you!
I still will have to set up the whole php backend-shizzle because I have to host the project on some servers of our university and need other people be able to manage the content...
Ah I didn't realize you were talking about non-personal site setup. Yeah, backend setup definitely has to happen. 😖