How I stopped worrying and learned to love my first serious project

First step: don’t abandon your children

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How to abandon your child?

I’ve seen plenty of similar cases on Reddit and random memes over IT-related blogs. The schema is simple:

1. You have a new project idea
2. You execute the idea better or worse
3. You have an even better idea
4. You dump your first project in favor of the new “best-project-of-the-century”

Try. Rinse. Repeat.

My reasons were slightly different.

Let’s start with the basics

The project of which I’m talking about was my first, full-blown full-stack educational piece of software. Even before my first git commit, I knew I had to step up my QA Engineering game because I wanted to become more aware of how sophisticated software is built.

How does the back end communicate with the front end? What the back end actually is? How does user authentication work? How to use a database, incorporate it with the back end, and update it via the front end? How to craft JSON Web Token?