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JavaScript is the most popular programming language in the world. It started primarily as a language for building interactivity (animations, dropdowns, etc.) on web pages, but eventually expanded to being a full fledged programming language for building backends.

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The Details: Frontends and Backends

The basics of how apps are built by their component parts.

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I built a (basic) Substack clone in a month

Behind the scenes of rebuilding Substack's core functionality myself.

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What Does Algolia do?

Algolia provides a set of tools that helps engineers build search functionality into their apps.

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What's a web app?

How the apps you access in your browser actually work.

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What's Headless E-Commerce?

Shopify, but without the frontend.

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Algolia

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