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Disclaimer: I'm not a developer and could only ever be considered a novice programmer. A family member was after a bespoke app that would do some calculations
by account-5 4y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not a developer and could only ever be considered a novice programmer.
A family member was after a bespoke app that would do some calculations for him on site and include pictures and customer details. They wanted it to work on mobile and desktop.
At this point I thought a web or hybrid app would be the way to go. One code base multiple platforms. Cue a month of trying to work out what to use out of an uncountable number of frameworks.
I can't overstate the level of confusion involved it this for a novice like myself! I've created a few simple desktop programs before but nothing on mobile or the web. Where do you start with the current state of things on the web? I still don't know. What I did know was I didn't want to waste time learning a framework that wasn't going to be around, or had just appeared.
At this point I heard of Dart and Flutter which worked across all the platforms I was interested. Not only the it was JIT or AOT when needed, with hot reload.
As for the app, I don't have a GitHub, it's so bespoke to its usecase I don't think anyone would be interested. But also I'd be very embarrassed to release the code. I dread to think how bad it would look to real programmers/developers!
- scotty79 4y agoDon't be so hard on yourself. Nearly all of just just wing it even if we sometimes claim otherwise. Congrats on overcoming hurdles and delivering a product. Not all professional developers always achieve that.