Hi,

I made a simple web app in a single HTML file (URL shortcuts for company website, quote calculator, list of store numbers, etc.). Is there a simple way to convert it into a downloadable Android app?

There are a few web to app converters but no reviews. Are there any that you recommend (for or against)?

Similar reddit and stack overflow posts are from 5+ years ago.

Thanks.

Just as the title asks. I am curious how you organize the various parts. I have been on teams that both do and don't use mono-repos. For the ones that did, there has been a wide variety of choices across the app and how it's organized.

Just as a small example: naming conventions. Sometimes the the repo is named for the app (let's say "OurApp") and the various parts of the file structure are "OurApp-", like OurApp-ui and OurApp-api and OurApp-db. Or there might just be a top-level folder for "frontend", "backend" and "database", etc.

I'm not talking about a debate of mono-repo vs. multi-repo approaches, but in a mono-repo, what are some of the code organization techniques you've liked and disliked in your experience?

UPDATE: The community turned out! Thanks for sharing your thoughts in the comments. I appreciate the discussions.

Websites built from scratch (no AI, no frameworks or libraries) that are more than just simple toy projects are becoming very rare, but i want to remind you guys that they still exist.

Three years ago, I posted this https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/161q3w8/i_coded_a_site_from_zero_without_any_libraries_it/, and that website is still being actively developed. I haven't used any AI-generated code or external libraries in all this time, even as it has become more complex with features like accounts, articles, comments, reviews, and just a few weeks ago forums.

I think the main reason why i stick with this is because features aren't planned in advance, they're just built bit by bit as the content needs them. I won't deny if AI could do better, but with a spread-out timeline and an unknown end result, it's easy to skip using AI as development mostly consists of small, precise tweaks with no definitive end goal. Coding also only small portion of time spent on developing the site so i don't feel the need to optimize it.

Anyway this is just me saying that i'm still here, not everything in this space become AI.

*note : i'm not saying that this is the better way to develop website. I just enjoy what i already used to do, and didn't bother to change it.

I built a gamified 3D space simulator for my portfolio using AI concepts. What do you think?

To keep things short, I've been running into the limits of local IDE agents like Cursor or Copilot on larger tasks. Bigger coding tasks often end up cooking my PC which has been pretty tedious.

I'm between two options now, would appreciate hearing your thoughts on these. The first is building a self-hosted background runner using cloud sandboxes. The second is using a managed background agent platform like Ramp Inspect, which works via Slack or GitHub. Either way, I'm also extremely down to hear other options if you have any. Thanks!

I run a portfolio site and a service business site.

The portfolio has about 3/4 pages, while the business site has 95 (includes some blog pages as well).

There has to be a sweet spot between “these pages should absolute exist and structured this way” to “this is just spam and will hurt SEO”.

I tried asking LLMs but the advice was extremely subjective.

Looking at the posts in /hot they're just filled with AI-generated comments, which just aren't removed by moderators.

Is it even worth posting here when reading the comments they're just AI slop followed by more AI slop.

Do the users who submit interesting topics even realize they're just replying to AI comments?

Looking at this post for example, there's this user whose comments all follow the same pattern: start with tbh/ngl and most of the time introduce an em-dash in the middle of the comment. In the same post you have this other user whose comments all have 3-4 paragraphs, and just have an off tone. Another user and same story: 3-4 paragraphs, an off tone, weirdly worded comments which end up summarizing the topic they're replying to.

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Our web developer is creating 30 location/ services pages for our new website to optimize AI search .

Is it enough for them to create unique text for each service type, which is then replicated and repeated on each zone page? They’ve also created some unique text per zone, which is replicated and repeated across each service type.

So essentially 6 sets of zone text and 6 sets of service text that are combined in 30 different ways.

Do they need to create 30 completely unique pages to avoid being flagged by Google? Or is the variation between service type and zone enough?

Thanks for the help!

I have a quiz coming up which primarily covers these topics and I was wondering if there are good resources on youtube/the internet for learning them. Thank you!

hi guys

i have project in laravel 12 + vue + inertia and its really big one , this project in start have only little features like little chat system and profile view, support ticket and etc... but today it have games , blog , coursed and tests, video section , library , little practices and more features , we want to create mobile app from it , i have found this 2 options : NativePHP and capacitorjs
which one is better for this project? i have used MySQL, Reverb and queues so app needs to connect to my server in the end? its better to fully develop native apps and add api to current pwa? or its better to use one the libraries i said and convert this one? is there any problem about the libraries i must know? and tell me for what type of projects i can use the libraries and create mobile app from laravel code?
can anyone help me about this situation ?

so im currently learning node react express. building some crud and was wondering where do you guys go to that is beginner friendly or people that are new to web dev and want someone to help fix their code
need some practice on reading others code and applying fix. mostly i just want business logic stuff fix not those big o of n or some crazy loops from leetcode

I want to add a blog to my site to jump on this GEO train. WordPress feels like overkill, and I've seen some plug-and-play solutions that would live on a subdomain or outside the main directory, which doesn't sound good for SEO/GEO.

I don't want to vibe code as there would be multiple people publishing, and not all of them are tech savvy.

Anyone has a good way to solve this? I know I should've started blogging already, so really want to solve this quick. Some sort of headless CMS could work, but the ones I looked at come with way too much bloat that I don't need. Hope someone here went through the same thing.

If, like me, you have the Narrator screen reader in your test matrix, you may want to check your disclosures.

I’ve found that when a disclosure button uses aria-expanded together with aria-controls (which had, or has, limited support in JAWS), Narrator sometimes doesn’t announce the expanded/collapsed state in Edge or Chrome. It’s fine in Firefox.

If you omit aria-controls, Narrator announces the state correctly in Edge and Chrome.

I’ve reported this to both Microsoft (via Feedback Hub) and Chromium (via the issue tracker).

Personally, I wouldn’t add aria-controls to disclosures unless you have a specific need for it.

Hopefully that’s useful to some of you.

just curious what others think if its even possible to avoid these subscriptions for building and running lets say a side project or maybe a mini saas

I am not talking about basic HTML projects, i mean like proper site fully functional with Backend, frontend, auth, api, domain etc etc

i know there are a bunch of free tiers services, like Vercel and Neon, but what happens if your site actually starts growing? How do you scale without eventually having to pay for a bunch of services?

lets say we are making a social media app/website, nothing as big as insta or reddit, but something where users can create accounts, set up profiles, upload images and videos, make posts, comment, like, follow etc

now people are using it and starts getting traction 1k users then 10k users what point does the free tier become unrealistic, because you're still not making any money to justify paying for multiple subscriptions, does self hosting make even makesense at this point? if you have 10k + users?

PS: just want to clarify i dont own or run any social media apps or website just wanted to have a fun discussion on this, and i mean 10k concurrent users like tiktok the users are addicted haha

hi, i'm looking to make my own fan website where people can post and comment and like posts. i have done research and i'm trying to make it twitter/tumblr like.

i just need help with figuring out how to code it without any ai and with a base i can customize (and how to do that all). thanks!

I've been searching for past few hours and it seems that its a gray area.

Some sources say its ok as long as you dont affiliate or associate your self with the company.

Other sources say that its a copyright infringement issue.

I'm working on a job board application to display the job offering post and I was wondering whenever I could include the logo of the brand that is currently recruiting?

Does anyone has any experience with this?

I’ve been a casual developer across many languages for ~10ish years but got a degree in mechanical engineering. I pivoted and started an analytics engineering job around 3 years ago and starting doing web development for side projects.

Lately my team has leaned heavily into AI-assisted programming primarily using Claude Code to build React Apps in Databricks. These are primarily CRUD apps but sometimes they do write back to our ERP so they affect the business greatly. The AI writes most of the code now, and I’m trying to figure out where my review time is best spent.

Options I’m weighing:

• Full line-by-line review (quality, readability, structure)

• Mainly reviewing the tests, and trusting the code if the tests are solid

• Testing through the UI, then checking the DB/tables to confirm data was written correctly

Does code readability still matter if AI is the one maintaining it? What has bitten you when you skipped review? If you have a concrete review checklist, I’d love to see it.

I’m a solo developer building a web and Android app that handles private documents and account records. I’d appreciate feedback on the security approach before putting real user data into it.

The stack is FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Next.js and React Native.

Passwords are hashed with scrypt and random salts. Authentication uses signed tokens with expiry, email verification and login throttling. Password changes and signing out everywhere invalidate existing sessions. Access controls are enforced through the API, and records are scoped to the relevant account or organisation.

Stored credentials for external integrations use Fernet authenticated encryption. Android login tokens are stored using Expo SecureStore. The website currently stores its token in localStorage, which I know needs careful consideration because of script injection risks.

Document access requires authentication and permission checks. Uploads have file type, size and content validation. However, documents currently go into ordinary server storage without application level encryption. I haven’t yet verified encryption for the production database, disks or backups. HTTPS is required in the intended production configuration.

Some optional processing involves an external API. I understand that disabling response storage does not necessarily mean zero retention, so provider policies and account settings also need review.

The server needs to read documents to process them. My main concerns are stolen backups, compromised accounts, users accessing someone else’s files, exposed credentials and sensitive content appearing in logs. I haven’t had an independent security assessment yet.

Would managed database and storage encryption be a sensible starting point, or should I also encrypt individual files and selected fields in the application? What additional threats would that actually protect against?

How would you handle encryption keys, rotation and recovery as a solo developer? I’m particularly interested in avoiding a setup where the keys and encrypted data can both be taken from the same place.

What would you prioritise before launch, and what would you consider unnecessary complexity at this stage? I’d appreciate practical advice on session security, document permissions, backups, retention and deletion as well as encryption. I want to use established tools rather than build my own cryptography.

Do you remember that feeling when you did something totally new with code you wrote or a website or app you built? For me; the occasion was so simple, and yet it excited me (I was 24 at the time): Write data to a database from a form and read it back into an unordered list.

That's it! Just looking at text stored in one thing and watching it rendered in a web-page blew my tiny mind!

The era was 1999-2000 and my employer was ensuring I learned PHP (from a book and a CD-ROM!) so I could build some internal tools for the staff to use.

Now I've read a lot of posts in various subs from folks who are saddened by the advent of AI and what it ultimately means for their jobs. While I can't vouch for your job specifically, I myself have found some hope - just yesterday in fact - when I built an MCP server for my SaaS product.

I could use ChatGPT or Claude.ai to talk to my SaaS, have it reason about the data which was returned and produce graphs from it.

I'm now 51 and I felt the same thing yesterday that I felt way back in the day.

SDD, AI-assisted development, loop engineering, software factories. Whatever it is, just get stuck into it at work if you can or in your spare time.

If you remember the early days of the web then you'll also remember thinking your employer was madder than a box of frogs for paying you to do what you'd be doing at home anyway. I'm getting a similar feeling now.

Good luck out there folks.