Web development

[Ratte]

I am currently doing a web design course (certificate 4 internet technologies (web development)) and have been wondering what productivity tools are worth looking at.

I've been looking at chatGPT for things such as transpiling, code generation, researching, viewing videos and compiling summaries, generating dummy data to test databases, etc, etc.

I plan to start doing some work with grapesjs to hopefully speed up mock ups of webpages(I know that wireframing is usually the standard starting point after the mood board, but Photoshopping a whole wireframe literally takes me longer than writing out the html and CSS by hand, so I've decided not to bother wireframing, I'll just go from moodboard straight to mockup, and from what I've seen grapesjs is kind of like Dreamweaver but it has better features, extensions, and it's open source) so if anyone can give me some tips on good extensions, or better alternatives for a WYSIWYG editor then I would be happy about that; also be good to hear of anyones experiences with grapesjs or alternatives

Vscode is the code editor I use; I would love some good extensions to really speed up and clean up the coding experience for CSS, html, JavaScript, PHP, and SQL; I'll be working for and by myself, so productivity needs to be at a maximum whilst not impacting output quality

If anyone has any productivity tools that they swear by, then please let me know what they are, what makes them so useful, and why they should be considered above other options

Probably a bit strange that I'm asking this, but I've found heaps of good help in strange and unexpected places lol so I figured fuck it; might be worth a shot

I'm also shit as fuck with CSS, just saying

 

[vacaloca]

Hello, what country are you from?

 

[Ratte]

Hello, what country are you from?

I'm from australia

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Hello, what country are you from?

Why do you ask??

 

[Darkwing87]

I am currently doing a web design course (certificate 4 internet technologies (web development)) and have been wondering what productivity tools are worth looking at.

I've been looking at chatGPT for things such as transpiling, code generation, researching, viewing videos and compiling summaries, generating dummy data to test databases, etc, etc.

I plan to start doing some work with grapesjs to hopefully speed up mock ups of webpages(I know that wireframing is usually the standard starting point after the mood board, but Photoshopping a whole wireframe literally takes me longer than writing out the html and CSS by hand, so I've decided not to bother wireframing, I'll just go from moodboard straight to mockup, and from what I've seen grapesjs is kind of like Dreamweaver but it has better features, extensions, and it's open source) so if anyone can give me some tips on good extensions, or better alternatives for a WYSIWYG editor then I would be happy about that; also be good to hear of anyones experiences with grapesjs or alternatives

Vscode is the code editor I use; I would love some good extensions to really speed up and clean up the coding experience for CSS, html, JavaScript, PHP, and SQL; I'll be working for and by myself, so productivity needs to be at a maximum whilst not impacting output quality

If anyone has any productivity tools that they swear by, then please let me know what they are, what makes them so useful, and why they should be considered above other options

Probably a bit strange that I'm asking this, but I've found heaps of good help in strange and unexpected places lol so I figured fuck it; might be worth a shot

I'm also shit as fuck with CSS, just saying

IMO web development isnt a good field to get into. Especially with chatgpt, the projects it and it's Descendents can't write will just be put to bids by Indians that will do it for $4/hr.

I wasted my younger years doing front end first then back end and finally DevOps

 

[Ratte]

IMO web development isnt a good field to get into. Especially with chatgpt, the projects it and it's Descendents can't write will just be put to bids by Indians that will do it for $4/hr.

I wasted my younger years doing front end first then back end and finally DevOps

Did you work for a company or have your own business?

And even though chatGPT makes a lot of things easier, it still needs someone to work and guide it, not to mention it can get shit VERY wrong without oversight lol

And Indians won't do it for $4hr without it being an absolute scam lol it would make more sense for them to make a call centre and rip off old people or whatever hahaha and web design is a difficult job, I can't imagine anyone doing it too cheap legitimately, all cheap services would lack quality and stability if it wasn't just a con, not to mention they will most likely lack a formal education on the subject

Out of those 3, what paid best?

I wanna(I say wanna, but I'll pretty much need to) become full stack