I finally admitted my first big project failure was because I skipped planning

I spent 3 hours building a simple login page in my bedroom, only to realize I forgot to set up a database connection, and I had to scrap everything and start over from scratch - has anyone else hit a wall because they jumped into coding without mapping out the logic first?

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ray3633d ago

Three hours on a login page with no database? Man, that is a brutal way to learn that lesson.

the_joel3d ago

Ugh, yep, I used to be one of those people who thought "how hard can a login be?" and would just slap it together in like 20 minutes. I figured if the data wasn't stored anywhere, you could just fake it with JavaScript and call it a day. Then I actually had to build one for a client who wanted to test user flows before the backend was ready. Three hours of constantly refreshing, checking the console, and realizing I made the same password check logic error five different ways before I got it to actually work. It really made me respect how much small stuff can trip you up when you don't plan it out first.