LocalBusinessStudentTutoringWebsite

What’s poppin’!

Today I present to yooouuuu… (drum roollll)
Thee offers paage! haha

Ok yea I started & kinda finished a complete Css refactor on this page today, as it is the last of all the main pages that’s still missing really before we (tomorrow) can do our first release :).
(The shop page doesn’t have anything yet and just says “soon” and some other small pages like the error page or basically all the ones you get access to when you’re logged into your account are also still missing (at least their styling), but to continue over there I would first have to work on the backend again n do some stuff over there before I can integrate them with all the database interactions and so on required for the content I wanna show / you should be able to see on there. Header (top right part) also not fully perfect as of now. Think one can clearly spot that though hah.)
(Oh and while you can already buy yourself some of them sweet sweet stars right here, the calendar, so basically where you can spend them, is just purely visual as of now to be a placeholder for what’s to come on here in the near future :o.)

We’ll see how the release goes tomorrow and yyyyyeahh.. lot of work still to go for all the other pages and elements to work correctly and harmonize (is that a word lol?) with the backend.

Aight naight see ya ^^.

Finished the homepage today with the “target groups” and small “contact” section :D. Think it turned out great again and actually only took 2:40 hours :o.

Again, tired & will continue tomorrow with the last public page before the first release!! The offer page where you see what we currently offer and can either book a custom appointment, or sign up for a course that you can select from a small calendar showing all the dates we organize one :).
We’ll see if I’ll managa that yo.

Stay f-f-f-fresh and good night ^^.
(Css wasn’t too evil to me today XD. One could even go as far and call it “quite pleasant” today & that’s crazy.)

Today continued the homepage with this next grid like element listing what we “offer” to customers.

Think it turned out quite nice again, but it took sooooo long oh my god I did not know how and now I still don’t know why the hell Css’s grid and flexbox systems don’t provide a max column/row item count?? Like.. ? What am I supposed to do when I want to use a grid but it should only ever grow up to that many columns (e.g. with auto-fit) and never beyond? You would have to hack some calc() statement for the grid-template-columns Css attribute together and redundantly store extra variables for gap size, min column size, max column count, etc.. ooor just choose to redundantly update your values in different places whenever you change one of them. Like what are these workarounds I found you have to go through in order to acheive something conceptually so dang simple!?
Just. A. Maximum. Column. Count. That’s it…!

However I got around it by having to use a media query (which I always try to avoid) that changes the grid cols from 2 to 1 whenever it gets below 1024px as this width is carefully curated to fit my item div sizes. Still small redundancy like when I change the div size I also always have to verify the media query breakpoint width again if it still fits & switches at the correct point but other than that (and the fact that I’m having to rely on media queries to begin with) the cleanest way I found.

Don’t wanna rant about Css here every devlog but how can I not if things like this come up soo often >.<.

Good night (or morning or whatever wherever you are) and I hope I can get back to backend again soon :DDD. Frontend’s also fun but really becomes draining if it’s your full-time job OMG.

Quick session on a sunday today because I slept in to be at least somewhat well-rested again before next week starts. (LAST week of this (my first) semester in computer science at university YAYY 🥳🥳🥳. Got a LOT of free time after that, but these 2 months are also where I write my exams soooo.. still have to do a lil bit of learning but otherwise great :D!)

About the changes in the project today; Css. I FINALLY got behind why my flex items (you see below the checkmarks, the text and image next to it) in a flex container with flex-wrap enabled are always INSTA wrapping and not even trying to shrink to then only wrap when no more shrinking (due to min-width) is possible.
You seemingly have to specify flex-grow and -basis to be at least something for this desired behavior to emerge. Wth man. I don’t fully understand this, but I honestly don’t want to plague my brain with every single detail and all the tiniest rules there are to the absolute shit-show that Css inherently is. I just wanna imagine some visuals & effects and know what to do to achieve exactly that. Not write a masters thesis about the inner workings of this hell of a system. And this is working rlly well so far!
Lil css rant this became here. Also has to happen sometimes.

Have good one again :D. I’ll continue in the next few days.

Almost finished the home page today. And DAMN doing good Css yourself can take a lot of time.
Have to see now how I’ll style every section on the page (The vision, What we offer, About us (the team), For Businesses, Contact) each a little differently so they don’t just look copy pasted aass.

7 hours of Css (with a small WakaTime hackaclub downtime today, right?) sure is exhausting, but can be extremly satisfying at times too!

So let’s see when I’ll be able to finish this the perfectionist that I am… :)

Continued with the homepage now. Still some work, but I’ll get there :). Veery tired now omg I just can’t ever go to bed early can I? -.-
Anyways, I also think WakaTime might have scammed me today because my wifi was gone for a bit while working and it somehow cut the tracked development time in two and this is only the second part after I got wifi again ;(. But also I worked in a text file a little that wasn’t tracked & stuff so maybe that adds to.
Idk maan I’m just tired and going to beed noow finally. Happy, as always, but tired.
Good night everybody reading this! (Probly very few if any at some point who knows :o.)

Today I did a LOT of CSS, mainly the “About us” page where all the team members are listed :).
Css truly is something, huh? But today’s a day like any other where I am just incredibly greatful again that TailwindCss exists <333. XD

okey see ya!

Today I refactored A LOT of the server code to the point where it’s now pretty bearable, by finishing the booking routes and putting all the algorithms in the abstractions they (for now) belong, as well as finally abstracting and cleaning up the stripe payment procedure.
I also changed the currency you can buy in packets utilizing stripe from minutes (you previously used to sign up to courses and other stuff, subtracting the duration minutes of the event from your balance (minutes as currency)) to a higher level system of “stars”. So you now just buy some amount of Stars you can then use to buy/sign up for whatever you want :D.

Next and last thing to be done now until the MVP version is completed is to fix & tidy up the entire frontend to incoorperate all new functionality, but also make it pretty while doing that ^^.