1-year lesson: From no-code to yes-code?
Putting creativity first and understanding how things work may be a long-term bet.
Why did you do your project? Read again.
I believe some of us are mainly pushed by crafting. Creating things, building stuff, and shipping something from nothing is a huge intrinsic motivation for me, maybe it's the same for you.
As a designer, I started building stuff with Webflow, then, Bubble. One day I gave a try to code: disgusted 🤮. It was really like reinventing the wheel and wasting hours in project configurations, writing code I don't understand... All this is for simple form handling validation.
BUT, times have changed ⛅. Some frameworks are just incredibly accessible and to be honest, some of them like Svelte are pretty like "no-code". And you can do literally whatever you want. I love making "art", 3D motion graphics, and designs. But listen, coding has unleashed my creativity to a rare degree.
I've recently made an SVG generator from scratch. And what I learned will compound in many applications. This weird generator is so simple that it just cannot do in Webflow without little bits of code, so if little bits of code are involved for a stupid thing like this, why not spend energy learning code for the rest of life?
Lesson learned:
Don't trade your brain's willingness to understand, learn, and connect the dots for a ship fast, fail fast promise that costs you $25/month to connect a custom domain.
It's just like paying bucks to get the lvl 100 in your favorite game. It looks like it benefits.
Yes, spending time to learn how to code is worth it. Because it's about Freedom.
Cheers!
