For me, I distinctly remember when something clicked for me about how data is used in a template to render a page.
It's hard to describe how I didn't quite understand this, but I knew well how to create an HTML page by typing the HTML up myself. I even know how to do some JavaScript to manipulate that — but I really didn't have a concept of how server code worked to create the dynamic content I saw on a page.
But learning more about software in a non-web context gave me a much better grip of how things actually worked, and then when I came back to web I definitely felt some things click. Now there are different paradigms for how things actually happen — static site generation, APIs, whatever. But just figuring out how any of it could work is a big victory.
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For me, I distinctly remember when something clicked for me about how data is used in a template to render a page.
It's hard to describe how I didn't quite understand this, but I knew well how to create an HTML page by typing the HTML up myself. I even know how to do some JavaScript to manipulate that — but I really didn't have a concept of how server code worked to create the dynamic content I saw on a page.
But learning more about software in a non-web context gave me a much better grip of how things actually worked, and then when I came back to web I definitely felt some things click. Now there are different paradigms for how things actually happen — static site generation, APIs, whatever. But just figuring out how any of it could work is a big victory.