I am—and I can not emphasize this enough—very bad at coding.
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Hire me as your personal assistant
What are your skills?
Coding various programming languages and utilizing emerging technologies .
At the moment I literally want to take a single page I wrote in HTML and deploy it in a website built in React and I feel like a dog trying to drive a car.
I can happily do that for you .
A local friend has offered to help but if it doesn’t work out I’ll give you a shout. 🤙
They can get another job at the local area ☹️🙁 you ought to create employment for people with no jobs 🤦♂️
Well I never actually said I had a budget for this.
Whout? You ain’t got no value for value ? Talk to your friend at the local then 😂 😂 Dan
Ngl. This seems very simple. 😅
To someone who knows the tools, I’m sure.
Anyway, I’m making progress with AI. It’s getting me of the way there. 😁
*most of the way there
Ai has taken all the jobs 😢
From chatGPT it seams three things need to happen.
1) Define a const htmlPage = ‘your html code here’;
2) Create a function that returns the first variable inside something called dangerouslySetInnerHTML. (Must say seems like a const as well, but looks like a function, maybe that’s how react works)
3) Give that function a style and then style it separately. 
Why did you choose React , Daniel?
It wasn’t a choice.
It looks like you solved this. But Incase you need to do it again here are a few other points I am remembering.
The team said it was different if you know MVC models. It’s like he MV combined. As opposed to for example Angular which (I think) is MVC (does that make any sense?) 🤣. So that’s a hard transition for some folks.
They always talked about a “react app” or single page app? Maybe it’s more of an app vs a page?
Related I think pretty much everything is a component. So make components.
Build the app with Create React App (CRA) command to run some kind of build compiler.
That team preferred Vite and switched to that I think from CRA
Trust experts not me. Just some threads to pull on.
I’m used to just uploading files via FTP to a public folder on my web server, so this is several layers of abstraction from that. I’ll eventually figure it out, just need a few good mentors.
I’ll mentor for a cold one 🍻 . I’m also in the process of converting my business website to a react web app
Yeah. The challenge for me was that React has different syntax and structure than HTML and CSS and that’s where I really needed the AI lift the most.
For comparison, I couldn’t set a page background image so I had to rewrite it as a DIV with a background image that filled the entire viewport, and React uses its own variable names that don’t match what I know from my early web coding days.
It’s just a lot to have to get the hang of when all you want to do is publish a single page with almost nothing on it except an image and a link.
Could’ve used
Using React for this is going overboard 😂
If you say so. This is the code GPT interpreted from my CSS and it worked, so mission accomplished.
hot take: if all you want to do is publish a single page with almost nothing on it except an image and a link, then you should not use react.
unless your goal is learning react.
🙋🏻
Are you having difficulty with the Copy part or the Paste part? 😜
More along the lines of how do I put the thing in the thing so it does the thing I want it to do.
I put it in, and it comes out backwards. So then I reverse the order, and I get a reference instead. Then I throw recursion at it, because I'm never sure when to use recursion anyway.
After that, I paste error messages into search engines until I see the same code three times. Then I delete my code and replace it with the code I found, then it finally runs.
I've made many programs this way, although, they never do what I originally intended. I figure they'll be popular since humans are gluttons for punishment.
I've been out of college coding for about 6 years now. I still don't understand pointers
I learned how to write HTML and CSS over 20 years ago and now everything is completely different and I feel like don’t understand anything anymore.
