I think JavaScript is a great first language. Easy to pick up, but lots of potential (frontend/backend/native). A lot of people dislike JavaScript (some valid reasons, some not) but it’s undeniably a great first language.

thanks for this! Was looking for something similar :)

Ah! Apologies - still learning the ropes with Lemmy 😅

Do you mind sharing a link to that article? Sounds interesting!

I think a lot of this has to do with your table design and general query efficiency. Choosing the wrong structure early on will force you to migrate earlier. If you’re really thoughtful and intentional with your DB design, I can definitely see a single Postgres instance scaling to handle the vast, vast majority of web applications.

Howdy! I am also starting to dip my toes into Lemmy/fediverse dev (I’m toying with making an iOS client). My background is more webdev (specifically NodeJS and React).

I think dipping into the README’s for the project would be useful. Really depends on what you want to hack on.

If you’re more interested in the backend (Rust) side of things, you can check out the repo here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

If you’d like to get your feet wet with the frontend (like you said it’s mainly a TypeScript/ReactJS app), that’s over here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui

You can run both the frontend and backend locally via a docker container, and test your changes there.

Would love to find a good place to chat about Lemmy dev - having never worked on a decentralized app I have a ton of questions!