First Blog Entry; 3/18/26

Well today I finally did it. I finally did the big thing. I worked my ass off and after 24 years of living have finally created my first ever full stack website! Coming in hot with a full stack coded website with database stored code and a fully custom coded Frontend (UI) and Backend (server logic that handles requests) through Next.js. This is a framework built overtop React, made for building full websites. React is a JavaScript written library that lets you build UI components such as buttons, lists, pages etc. React was made by Facebook actually in the early 2010's because back then it was most common that you had to refresh the page to see updates on things you would do such as liking a post or making a forum entry. React is a massive library of these components essentially and the components are individual parts of the UI on a page that are made to update solely without the rest of the page being affected. For example, I can add multiple photos on each entry here and if multiple are posted, there is a "photostrip" component a part of this library which will allow my photos to be scrollable left to right without distorting everything else on the page. Anyways, this is a little win in the greater scheme of things but I really am excited after seeing that I can use the tools readily at my disposal to create a fully functioning coded project. Although I have so far to go, building this today has gotten me really excited to embark on my journey of web based skill learning. Today is day one of my new journey. My journey to independence. I plan to be fully in control of my life and I will use these tools available at my fingers until (and likely after) I have no doubts that my life is in the best direction I could imagine.