𝗠𝘆 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀

𝗠𝘆 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀

I finished a FastAPI tutorial and felt confident. Then I tried to build something alone. Everything broke.

It was not one big error. It was a hundred small ones.

• A missing bracket.
• A simple typo.
• A function name that caused an infinite loop.

These errors look tiny once you find them. They take hours to locate.

For days, fixing one error broke something else. I saw a clean server start up. Then the next request crashed with red error text. I started to doubt my skills.

Then my approach changed.

I stopped panicking at error messages. I started reading them. I stopped skimming. Most answers lived inside the error message. A wrong import or a missing parenthesis was usually the culprit. Finding them felt satisfying.

Now, every CRUD operation works. My API talks to a PostgreSQL database. I built it, broke it, and rebuilt it.

The tutorial taught me the shapes of code. Building my own version taught me why those shapes exist. My project feels real because I fixed my own mistakes.

Next, I will connect this to a React frontend. I expect more small problems. I am ready for them.

Source: https://dev.to/iamgitman/my-first-backend-actually-works-after-a-lot-of-small-breakdowns-51lf