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Videos are the best. Two things: 1) Sometimes it can be hard to find good YT vids, especially a series of vids that will deep dive into the topic you care about. Maybe sign up for an online course where there videos of the instructor coding in real-time and address things in detail. That will definitely give you a place to start with someone who has actually professionally done things you’re doing according to some best practice. 2) After you’ve got an idea of what you think is best practice, even if you have lots of questions remaining, just keep moving ahead with your project with a focus on making sure your API successfully does what you plan for it to do. it’s not possible for you to know all the best practices, especially in isolation, and still be productive. you have to get your work done, and some of it is just going to be terrible. It’s possible that you may end up with a lot of tech debt that requires time to go back over it to refactor, but what does your boss expect if you’re alone and making the whole thing by yourself? Unfortunately, you have to meet your timelines, so compromises must inevitably be made. More could be said about this, but i’ll leave it there. Also, overtime, you will start to see what the better way to implement things are, as you continue building out features and run into use-cases you might not have thought of previously. The videos and documentation you read later on will make more sense since you have a framework in your mind of how the patterns get used or implemented in code. |