My journey as a developer working on the Ember Initiative.

Web technologies move fast. Do you imagine using a 13-year-old JS framework in production? It is possible, and it is actually a good choice when it comes to using the amazing irreplaceable Ember JS. Ember is that old, yet it’s still around because it’s the most living framework of all. It grows up with you; it evolves with you; it becomes a better framework year after year as you become a better developer.

In this blog post, we will (re)learn backend basics by building a minimalist web server that displays the content of a minimalist database in the browser using NodeJS, KnexJS, and SQLite3.

I have been a frontend developer for a while. Almost a decade, to be accurate. And when I say frontend, I mean it. During my career, I acquired useful knowledge about CI jobs, deployment pipelines and these kinds of tooling stuff. But two days before I write this, the last time I saw a line of SQL was during my studies about twelve years ago. And let’s make it clear: I am not the most passionate developer on Earth, I don’t like coding on Sunday, so the number of situations and issues I encounter is generally limited to what my job offers. But I do have project ideas and sometimes I am in a mood I want to achieve them. One of my projects required me to (re)learn the basics of backend development: manage a small database and build an API for my frontend. I wrote this article to share my findings and tips.

(This blog post was translated from French, and the images contain text in French. Hopefully that shouldn’t be a problem to understand the content.)

Hello my budding ferrets,

Outside, the sun is shining and the air is neither too hot nor too cold. It’s perfect weather for a trip down to the lake. There, you’ll unfold your towel on the sand and lie back with a good read, listening to the little birds and occasionally returning a couple of swans their haughty looks. A very good plan… Except you don’t want to ruin your book on this excursion. Fortunately, it’s the year 2021, so you own a e-reader. Ah, the digital book… you log in to your Kobo or Amazon account, choose your next reading, and bim… it’s in the box, everything synchronizes automatically.