#beginner tags

I see the same problem happen again and again to juniors building their first Single-Page App (SPA). Everything works fine locally, but as soon as they deploy to a hosting platform like Netlify they get loads of "404 Not found" errors trying to load pages. There are lots of resources documenting how to fix this, so I'm also going to try to explain why this happens too…

I mentor a lot of junior developers, and it makes me sad to see so many stuck with the ugly, hard-to-use default terminal setup their machine came with. As a developer you probably spend a large chunk of your day using it, so it's a good idea to invest a little bit of time in making it look prettier and work more like a modern application…

When I first learnt JavaScript I struggled to understand how to apply that knowledge to practical web pages. I wanted to build things that actually did stuff, rather than static HTML/CSS pages or JavaScript things that only logged text to the console…