skifreejs VS TypeScript-Node-Starter

Github page here (see readme for controls): https://github.com/cdleveille/skifreejs

A few years ago, I built the website https://sea-air-towers.herokuapp.com/ whose code is at https://github.com/JohnReedLOL/TypeScript-Node-Starter . It's a site that helps people who annualy rent units in this beachfront vacation condo building find other units in the same building to rent next year (my mom is president of the building and asked me, with my bachelor's in Computer Science, to build the site for her). I built it by forking and then building on top of the TypeScript Node.js starter seed application code at https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-Node-Starter . I chose this TypeScript seed because I prefer TypeScript over JavaScript due to the types and the JavaScript seed (that the TypeScipt seed which I chose was based on) which is at https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter has a ton of stars on GitHub, so I assumed it was a good seed for building a site. The thing is, looking back, I wonder if maybe WordPress would have been a better tool to build this site. Two questions:

I made a CRUD app with frontend and backend JavaScript and TypeScript (JavaScript with types) by modifying https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-Node-Starter into https://github.com/JohnReedLOL/TypeScript-Node-Starter and then deploying it to Heroku to make the website at https://sea-air-towers.herokuapp.com/ . The database is MongoDB which stores JSON objects in documents, I used the "Start Free" option at https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/lp/try4 . You can copy off me and edit/modify it.

I didn't write this code and I didn't even look at it until just now. This code was pre-written as part of starter "seed code" from an early version of https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-Node-Starter that I cloned and then built functionality on top of. I never touched the password/authentication code, I just did a little grep to find it and show it to OP.

If you're not sure what you want to do maybe build your own sample site from a "starter" like https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-Node-Starter (this one uses TypeScript which is JavaScript with types added) or https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter (this one uses plain old JavaScript without types). I personally deploy to https://www.heroku.com/ because it's less complicated than deploying to AWS or Google Cloud but more businesses deploy to AWS than Heroku so learning AWS and having the AWS services you use to build and deploy your app as skills on your resume would probably make your resume look better to companies than just saying you know Heroku. If you want to copy off me (don't make and use an exact copy) my sample app deployed to Heroku has its code at https://github.com/JohnReedLOL/TypeScript-Node-Starter and the site is at https://sea-air-towers.herokuapp.com/ (I pay Heroku $7 a month for hosting). It's good to have a link to a sample app and link to the code for your sample app on your resume, just make the README.md file on GitHub look good so people can look at it and know what your app does. I have a software library with a much better looking README.md file at https://github.com/JohnReedLOL/pos

When building a web app from scratch, I recommend you build on top of a hackathon starter like https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter or maybe https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-Node-Starter if you want to use TypeScript, but for your purposes I believe you don't need TypeScript. The starter includes all the dependencies you need and you can pretty easily host it on something like Heroku or AWS.

Hey, so I’d try this starter or this TypeScript version.

Imo this is really great (a bit dated, but nothing drastic) (+ TS version by microsoft)

A) This is a great starter with auth, and a bunch of api examples. I started my project with this, and it’s been great, but I recently found out that there’s also a TS version by Microsoft of the same starter. I think that it’s opinionated enough for someone new to this ecosystem. (Ps: I think you’re better off switching the templating language from pug to ejs. It’s pretty php-like)