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In my experience teaching 14 year olds, that is precisely the kind of thing they first want to build: the things they know and use everyday (in 2020 it’s more likely to be Snapchat/Instagram/TikTok than Facebook, but the point remains).

And indeed, with a batteries included kind of solution like PHP/MySQL, one can build a basic Facebook like in a week long workshop or so. You won’t understand everything that’s going on under the hood of course, but the fact remains that it’s way more accessible than the webpack/Babel/react.js/etc stacks that web devs push these days (waiting for the inevitable “oh no one uses webpack anymore, it’s all about ChirpChirp.js these days!” :)