How hard can it be to create an app?

Reflections from a self-taught developer.

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So for a couple of years ago, I started my journey as a developer. I had an app idea and thought “How hard can it be to create an app!?”, pretty hard I soon noticed. I had not written a single line of code for years and I had never ever been close to Javascript earlier. So I started, in the spirit of every great developer, to Google and quite soon ended up on…