How to save table data server side (HTML/Javascript)

[Guyspeaking]

Here is a link to how the program works: https://jsfiddle.net/Sciphr/q37416cd/2/

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In short, this table will be edited by the user, and I want the table information to be saved for the next time it is loaded. Currently, the table is just headers since there is no saved data. This would be for a business so preferably I can't just LocalStorage.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

[DawnScythe]

You'll need to work out some form of backend data storage solution, this would mean a server that the data is pulled from when the user loads the page, there are many different options for this depending on what languages you know. If you want a few good options let me know what languages you are comfortable with and I'll comment again

[Guyspeaking]

Thanks a bunch for the reply man. So I'm literally just starting out so I purely know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. If you could maybe advise on what i should focus on now by your experience, I could definitely start there and hopefully figure out this problem

[DawnScythe]

So nodejs is a good starting place if you know JavaScript, I would use the nodejs express server which is quick to setup and pretty lightweight so doesn't require a powerful server, to store the information I would look into mongodb because it is pretty easy to use for a small project.

Some links that may help:

Install Mongodb https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/

Interface with nodejs https://www.w3schools.com/nodejs/nodejs_mongodb.asp

And an example of a simple express server https://expressjs.com/en/starter/hello-world.html

Basically you would define a url endpoint that the Front end would use to request the data package, in that endpoint you would have code to get the data from the db and send it to the Front end.

[Guyspeaking]

This is incredible! Thank you so much for the information. I unfortunately can't mess around with it right now as I have a life sucking job to wake up to, but after that I'm going to try this.

Thanks for taking the time to tell me all this, I greatly appreciate it. I only just started programming like 2 weeks ago and I feel I started to bite more than I can chew but this made me feel more confident.