Learn from stories about fullstack web development

Fullstack Web is the bastard child of web development. BigTech frowns on its lack of specialization, everyone else drowns in its complexity. But it runs the web.

Learning from tutorials is great! You follow some steps, learn a smol lesson, and feel like you got this. Then you go into an interview, get a question from the boss, or encounter a new situation and o-oh.

Shit, how does this work again? 😅

That's the problem with tutorials. They're not how the world works. Real software is a mess. A best-effort pile of duct tape and chewing gum. You need deep understanding, not recipes.

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Latest Fullstack Web articles from Swizec

5 articles from 2020 · show all

October 2020

How JAMStack helps you ship

Common problem in engineering teams: Stepping on each other's toes. JAMStack can help.

September 2020

Why NextJS /api routes are fab – CodeWithSwiz 6

In this episode of CodeWithSwiz, we tried NextJS's support for /api routes – code running on the backend. In a word – Wow

August 2020

In 2020's, what is "frontend"? 🤨

"He's a frontend guy, is this even a fair question to ask?" The head of engineering was worried about our systems design question …

January 2020

How GraphQL blows REST out of the water

Let's have a look at hyow GraphQL makes queries so much easier and more pleasant than REST

It's never been this easy to build a webapp

We live in exciting times my friend. It's never been this easy to build a webapp and make your first $1,000/month.