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This has been a very interesting read. I've been wanting to build a single page personal website as a means of learning. I'm not a star in webdev so I have a lot of hours ahead of me.

I might actually deploy it like this, why not?

If anyone has any good book or other resources to get started in building a website like this for people who already have back-end and programming experience but lack html, css, js etc.. please reply them to me! Thank you

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I have found MDN [1] to be an exquisite resource for web technologies. I only use it as a reference since I'm already familiar with HTML/CSS/JS, but I would imagine their learning documentation to be high quality as well.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/

I'd recommend checking out Elm: https://elm-lang.org

it's ridiculously good and if you don't have js experience that shouldn't get in your way. it's easily my favorite frontend language.

I really like Vue.js for SPAs. I come from a Node/Php/Go back-end. Vue was the second front-end framework/library I learned, the first being Angular 1. Vue is way more intuitive. If you have experience with JS its really easy to get rolling. If you have no JS experience, just remember typing is a myth and you'll be fine ;). They also have a few examples on their website.

This article is great in explaining why modern javascript development is so complicated, with so many tools (webpack, babel, ...), and why it all makes sense:

https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/modern-javascript-...

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