Sankey diagram of my search for my first web dev job web developers

So I recently started a new job working as a full stack webdev for a smallish company. My team consists of 3 ppl plus my boss. we all work technically for the marketing deptartment.

So I was hired with the expectation i would be working with C# and mvc 5 framework however after few days of exploring the existing project I have found that this is 100% not the case. Now i may be wrong here, but the current web dev (has been here for 2 years) cant even fully answer my question regarding the stack which itself is not a great sign but thats another issue on its own and not fully relevant to this.

So anyways as far as i can tell the site(s) are built using windows asp.net web form framework. The pages are a mix of .shtml .asp and .aspx pages. Literally 0 c# code exist anywhere. the primary language used in these files is vb.net now this itself isn't totally an issue, i've already been able to make improvements that the current dev couldn't figure out. HOWEVER my issue is that this website exist THE EXACT SAME IMPLEMENTATION AND DESGIN in 5 different languages. we have > 6000 products listed each of which has its own page. EACH OF WHICH 100% STATIC. the prior team was literally copying and pasting code everywhere and jus duplicating everything NO DATABASE is used everything is literally hard coded into pages. this means when product descriptions change we are manually changing this 5 times in 5 totally separate identical projects

Now my primary concern is this is an insane way to maintain this scale of a website. I would like to fully convert the site over to c# and mvc 5 HOWEVER before i even propose this i want to make sure that certain requirements are met.

1- and most importantly is it even possible to have this rolled out like page by page wherein i can configure the routing in mvc while still serving all the static assets as they are (ie i dont want to change every page before i can start rolling out) so i can configure the framework serve everything as is, and slowly page by page convert everything into cshtml templates casue like 95% of the content could be templated into partial views.

2- not sure how possible this is either, but I would like to stop maintaining 5 separate instances of the same project in each language. my idea is to have all translations stored and simply change the html text content based on the user langauge selection &/or the domain.

so currently we have 5 domains in various languages is there any reason i cant point all 5 domains to the same actual site and then dynamically load the text language based on this (i.e .com english, .it italian, .es spanish, .cn chinese, .jp japanese)

this just seems massively inefficient and i've already found issues with this since changes made to one project need to be duplicated across 5 exact same project. already finding consistency issues.

Any insight you can offer is much appreciated as this is my first real job

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What are some of the rarely talked about downsides of the web development industry?

Posted: 17 Dec 2021 10:38 AM PST

There's a lot of upsides to this career, and a lot of people think that once you become a developer that "you've made it". But we all know things aren't that simple. What are some downsides to this industry in your experience?

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Am I the only one who is fed up with a lack of resolution to the table border bug in Chrome?

Posted: 16 Dec 2021 11:13 PM PST

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1201762

https://support.google.com/docs/thread/112629497/why-can-i-no-longer-control-table-border-thickness?hl=en

This is making our products (and other's perception of my work) look like garbage.

This has been in existence for over half a year and there appears to be no traction on a resolution.

We have a lot of legacy sites and simply don't have the bandwidth to find a temporary resolution (whatever it may be) and it seems ridiculous that we'd even have to consider it.

Am I in the minority here?

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Dropshipping e-commerce site stack to learn "the hard way" (but that makes sense to learn it in conjunction, and is affordable for little demand)?

Posted: 17 Dec 2021 04:28 AM PST

I have some basic notions of web dev and also know the basics of how dropshipping e-commerce works, but I want to test my knowledge and learn about actual usecases, so I want to build a project just to have on my portfolio and to share with friends, so i'm not trying to get those high revenue numbers people are talking about.

i'm doing it mostly to learn and as a fun project to get in-joke type t-shirt designs on a website so my friends can buy it, paying a premium obviously hahaha, it wouldn't be fooling anyone on its dropshipping nature btw. instead of doing the smart thing and buying a small order of several units i want to build a whole dropshipping store, because i want to learn the stuff

I assume a project like an online store would need some backend with the e-commerce logic, some API or some kind of way to talk to Aliexpress/dropshipping suppliers, and some front-end. And because it's a store dealing with payments there probably needs to be a payments API that i'd have to use. And storing all of the data that has to be stored in a secure way. And all of this would need to be hosted somewhere.

I'm learning some React and know a bit of python for backend stuff like Flask/Django, and using Replit to host the actual small projects i've had online, and localhost for the backend work. But I'm super lost as to how to go from here for a bigger project like this one.

I don't know what's the ideal way to go from here, in both "stack to be learning" and "not breaking my bank on this learning stage" - i don't mind spending say , 50 € a year or something like that, already spending 10€/year on a domain - if i'm learning something that will be appreciated by the webdev job market and make me feel confident i can take on projects like these. I've looked up possible things and I have a lot of concepts mixed up, idk if I use one of the big AWS/GCP/Azure things bc they're essentially free for low traffic and set up something like a docker container for the site, or one for frontend and one for backend (and other dockers for other projects like a personal website, etc), or if should pay for a VPS like digitalocean and use droplets for the things above.

I also don't know anything about the technical side of the e-commerce parts. Is applying for stuff like the Aliexpress Developer API (well, APIs) a thing that people do for small projects like these that would get approved? Same with payments APIs (the Aliexpress one has Alipay I guess, but in case i wanna put a different one that's more common in my country - Spain). I don't want to use no-code/low-code stuff like Shopify that's going to cost me 30€/month for a learning project, etc.

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Peer Reviews of my Website

Posted: 17 Dec 2021 11:11 AM PST

Hello r/webdev! I have recently started my own business and want to improve I figured some healthy criticism is one of the best ways to do so. So I ask you to go over my website and find critiques, absolutely everything is on the table just keep it in the realm of possibility, I'm a single developer trying to make a living. Thank you!

https://onecolo.com

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Go-to task runner

Posted: 17 Dec 2021 05:12 AM PST

Hey all, I was recently made aware of Frontend Mentor and since I've been bored AF I'm going to knock out a few challenges over the coming days/weeks. However, although I've been doing this professionally for 8 years I've been almost exclusively Angular since it was in alpha (very dark times indeed). So I'm a bit out of the loop on the "hottest" task runner for compiling SASS, minifying, etc. Are Gulp and Grunt still things or has a new kid walked on the block promising to do the exact same thing in a marginally different way?

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Electron question from a non-programmer (re: MS Teams)

Posted: 17 Dec 2021 11:05 AM PST

Preemptive apologies for my novice question in light of my curiosity.

I know that Microsoft Teams is nothing more than an Electron-based wrapper made to look like a desktop app. Today I noticed that every time it's launched, it also executes the process chrome_crashpad_handler to run along w/ it. I was curious if anyone knew any specifics about this process, namely if it were something that provided interoperability with Chromium based browsers or if it's purpose was entirely specific to the app itself having zero to do w/ outside browsers (my assumption). What function does this process serve?

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Will I ever get noticed online?

Posted: 17 Dec 2021 03:17 AM PST

Hello! I'm doing web stuff since 10+ years and been frontend, backend, full stack, lead and worked a lot with design systems. Last year, I decided to give back to the community by doing technical writing. It was not that hard as what I wrote was already something I always explained to my colleagues.

I spent 6h writing a post, a masterpiece, and it doesn't seem to interest anybody. I have 100 hardly won followers on Twitter that all follow me for the tech content, but I feel my stuff isn't even showing on their feed.

I wrote something so interesting, and I know so many people that share these kinds of posts, all the time, just not mine.

Same here. I even got a lot of post disliked. I wrote about responsiveness, and it was down voted like crazy because my blog had ONE responsiveness bug. I know it's bad but for once I had comments I was so glad. Just to see it was 5 people making the same responsive joke.

I know I'm terrible at writing "catchy" headings but tech posts are that catchy.

I see people explaining the "difference between let and var" getting 4k retweets.

And it is hard on me. I was always the weirdo doing computer, and my friends IRL never were in the tech. I don't come for a privileged enough to have studied and create a network. So no network, no industry friends.

So I don't feel welcome anywhere, and I feel like I'm underachieving because of that.

Super frustrating, I see people starting to code in 2019 and make way bigger accomplishment that me and securing freelance contract they don't even have the skills for. I see some building big audience giving noob tips and even some that are wrong practices.

I see people that just got on Twitter, but they have famous IRL friends/colleagues that boost their content.

I have nothing of these :/

Look I know this is a messy post, but I need to talk about it because it is really frustrating. And I don't know for how longer I can handle posting in the void.

What do you think I should do? Also is my English painful to read or something?

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State of CSS 2021

Posted: 16 Dec 2021 11:31 PM PST

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Laravel 8 Tutorial for Beginner: create sample app step by step.

Posted: 17 Dec 2021 10:47 AM PST

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12 Days of Web: A year-end celebration of fundamental web technologies: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Posted: 17 Dec 2021 02:54 AM PST

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Domain name already taken, what's the value?

Posted: 17 Dec 2021 08:56 AM PST

Hi I'm building a Web app and I've chosen the name, let's say "totalsmania", but totalsmania.com has been already taken. I've contacted the company who bought it and they're resellers. They asked me to propose an offer. How much should I say? Something similar to that is for 12€/year

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Introducing fuite: a tool for finding memory leaks in web apps

Posted: 17 Dec 2021 08:25 AM PST

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Posted: 17 Dec 2021 08:08 AM PST

I have released a JS library version recently to track accurate user's page visit. The goal is to avoid using third-party service to ensure data security, privacy and achieve high levels of transparency and accuracy in tracked time-on-page data. https://saleemkce.github.io/timeonsite There is a plan to build it as Wordpress plugin and give away for free(only for WP). What do you think?

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Vote for new MDN logo

Posted: 17 Dec 2021 07:56 AM PST

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How good in frontend should I be before moving to learn backend?

Posted: 17 Dec 2021 06:46 AM PST

Hello guys. Here is the current state of my knowledge:

HTML - can do most stuff but don't know the too specific html tags.

CSS - Can do responsive web design. Can't animate yet.

JS - Can do dom manipulation. Finished FCC's js curriculum. Pretty intermediate with algorithms. Will take an advanced algorithms course.

React - currently learning the basics.

Are these enough to move to back end? I'm planning to learn the MERN stack and apply as a junior fullstack dev in a year from now. Is learning mern stack enough?

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