Title: Context (skippable):<p>If you want to learn web development today and you use Google—even with the “one weird trick” of appending ”reddit” to your searches—all you find are micro-services, serverless&#x2F;lambdas, &gt;1M react packages, &gt;10M npm packages, and &gt;100M tutorials of how to do yet another to-do list with MongoDB or Firebase or the amazing marvel that is using SSR&#x2F;CSR with Vercel.<p>For the sake of over-simplification, let&#x27;s call this exciting web development. Now, where can I learn about the other side of the spectrum?<p>Request:<p>Is there an insanely pragmatic website or book containing everything you need to know when creating production-ready (yet simple!) web applications?<p>I am talking about HTML5, CSS3, modern JS (do you even need it? and if so, how does simple javascript look like?); `cron` jobs; database persistence; difference&#x2F;explanations of when to use bare-metal v. vps v. vm; what there is to know about reverse-proxying and load balancers and how to correctly setup and deploy those and so on?
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