Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?

For many months if not years I've been thinking about sharing knowledge I have. That's natural order of things of course, but because of limited opportunities of face to face contacts I didn't really have a chance to listen to people's problems and challenges. I work as full time software engineer, but also I do a lot of experiments and side projects. Because of that I've accumulated lots of different impressions and perspectives.

So I'm asking here: what would you like to read about, what are your current doubts about programming in general or related to dreaded by many subject of JavaScript and frontend frameworks. Is there any 'next level' you'd like to reach?

This question can help many other people in situation similar to mine. Thanks!

I like to read articles by people who feel they have something that's important to say. If you don't know what you should to write about, then anything you write is probably going to be pretty uninspiring. Good writing comes from a place of passion and urgency, a real drive to inform people about something that the author thinks is worth reading.

This might be an answer you don't like very much, but seriously, all the best articles that I've read and shared in the past have been been things that the author would probably have felt compelled to write even if no one bothered read their work. I can't imagine that soliciting for ideas really works.

I think this is the main reason why I've always failed to be the blogger I aspire to be. There are few subjects that I care enough about to write consistently on. It's weird, because I post on the web a lot and I feel like I'm pretty passionate about web stuff. It just doesn't manifest in the form of blog posts though.

Chromium development

Electronics, Microcontrollers

What I would find interesting is a page which lists all steps to be performed on the command line to create a web application from scratch.

Say we start with a fresh Debian install, the first line might be

    apt update && apt upgrade

The second line might be

    apt install php

Or Python or Node. And then the commands to create the project directory, switching to it, installing a webserver etc would follow. At some point there would be a line

    echo "Hello World" > index.php

At this point, we accomplished serving a static page.

And then line by line, a full web application is created, with routing, templating and user accounts. With no other tool than the command line. So the page would never say "Click on this then click on that..." or "Depending on your environment...". No, you could simply copy every line, paste it to your terminal and thereby create the exact same application.

Ideally the page would have one column of commands for every typical approach like Django, Flask, Laravel, Symfony, NextJS etc.

I would expect this page to start with just one approach - say Django. And then accept pull requests from experts for the other approaches.

So we would have side by side examples of what steps are needed in different environments to create a typical web app nowadays.

I had this idea for a while but so far did not get around doing it. If someone wants to collaborate on it, hit me up.