I wrote my first deployed side project 5 years ago. It has been with the customer for the whole time and worked flawlessly while doing some fairly complex things, managing multiple processes for the customer. When I wrote it I had never done any web development and had not coded for 4+ years. C++ before that.
Due to my lack of web development knowledge and massive time crunch, I built it with no framework, zero best practices and the most basic code I could build. The code is atrocious, and would not scale at all but it does what it is supposed to do and works because I did everything in the most basic way, there are no gotchas. Straight html, basic javascript and php on the backend. It interacts with google docs as well. Its almost to dumb to break.
Sometimes we really do complicate things with all of our new fancy frameworks, microservices, states, etc.
With that said, it would be impossible for anyone else to maintain and if anyone posted the code on the web I would probably be unemployed. But it works, very difficult to insert new features though.
Due to my lack of web development knowledge and massive time crunch, I built it with no framework, zero best practices and the most basic code I could build. The code is atrocious, and would not scale at all but it does what it is supposed to do and works because I did everything in the most basic way, there are no gotchas. Straight html, basic javascript and php on the backend. It interacts with google docs as well. Its almost to dumb to break.
Sometimes we really do complicate things with all of our new fancy frameworks, microservices, states, etc.
With that said, it would be impossible for anyone else to maintain and if anyone posted the code on the web I would probably be unemployed. But it works, very difficult to insert new features though.