Fish out of water in server side questions ...
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I was just offered a web dev job by a friend, and since one can't sit and to tutorials for the reste of ones life I said "Sure! I'll fix this for you!" ... and now I'm shit scared, haha!
So I have a a few questions, and I don't expect you guys to solve them all, but I need to know how to frame the problems so I can ask for proper help from developers I know can fix this.
The page is simple enough, but it has two major dynamics.
1. It must have a Google maps API, with the possibility to auto locate your position and add specific locations in the map: Example - I'm at location x, closest location y is this one.
2. There won't be a shop with possibilities to buy anything through the page, but the page must show live product inventory updates.
Now, my question is:
1. Where would be the best place to host such a page (I live in Norway), without it being mega expensive but also at some point scalable if one would wanna add a shop into the page? Is it feasable to do it from GitHub Pages, or do I have to go somewhere else?
2. I feel like the only Javascript aren't massive operations. Could I get away with just vanilla JS and go with that, or should I go all in and use a framework for this project? I have no experience with JS, and there is money to hire backend JS developers, but my question is do I have to make it bigger then it is?
In the spirit of Kevins (don't make it bigger then it has to, and HTML and CSS is mega powerful, don't do everything in JS if it can be done in CSS), I think this page basically is a static side with to specific dynamics in it. That's how I want to think about it at this stage, and then when things scale up (with a shop etc.) then we deal with that then. I'm a bit wary of making it bigger then it is at the moment. Better to build out the basics, and then scale up if needed. It really isn't a massive app project.
I was just offered a web dev job by a friend, and since one can't sit and to tutorials for the reste of ones life I said "Sure! I'll fix this for you!" ... and now I'm shit scared, haha!
So I have a a few questions, and I don't expect you guys to solve them all, but I need to know how to frame the problems so I can ask for proper help from developers I know can fix this.
The page is simple enough, but it has two major dynamics.
1. It must have a Google maps API, with the possibility to auto locate your position and add specific locations in the map: Example - I'm at location x, closest location y is this one.
2. There won't be a shop with possibilities to buy anything through the page, but the page must show live product inventory updates.
Now, my question is:
1. Where would be the best place to host such a page (I live in Norway), without it being mega expensive but also at some point scalable if one would wanna add a shop into the page? Is it feasable to do it from GitHub Pages, or do I have to go somewhere else?
2. I feel like the only Javascript aren't massive operations. Could I get away with just vanilla JS and go with that, or should I go all in and use a framework for this project? I have no experience with JS, and there is money to hire backend JS developers, but my question is do I have to make it bigger then it is?
In the spirit of Kevins (don't make it bigger then it has to, and HTML and CSS is mega powerful, don't do everything in JS if it can be done in CSS), I think this page basically is a static side with to specific dynamics in it. That's how I want to think about it at this stage, and then when things scale up (with a shop etc.) then we deal with that then. I'm a bit wary of making it bigger then it is at the moment. Better to build out the basics, and then scale up if needed. It really isn't a massive app project.
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