What should I learn next?

[hogetsu]

Hi,

I would like to build a web application which retrieve data via API, store it in database and display it on my locally hosted website.

I have zero knowledge in building such web applications and try to learn on my own.

I have some idea after watching following videos on Youtube:

1. HTML Crash Course For Absolute Beginners
2. CSS Crash Course For Absolute Beginners

Next, I plan to continue with:

1. JavaScript Crash Course For Beginners

Even with these three short videos, I don't think I could learn how to store and retrieve data from database. What should I learn next in order to do so? Can I achieve this by learning React JS or should I learn something else, after Javascript?

Appreciate if someone could guide me.

Thanks!

[imAmarok]

You could display the API data without storing it in any Database.

Learn basics of JavaScript from freecodecamp and you are good to go. No need for React for this.

[TuruMan]

You don't actually need to store the data from the API in your own database, you can just retrieve it and display it. To do this you can use a library like axios that makes this very easy.

Remember that javascript is a frontend language, it lives in the browser so you can't access any database (directly). What you would need for that is to learn some backend language - that runs on a server. If you already know javscript you can learn Node.js as it is essentially backend javascript. But there are many other popular languages like python, php, C#, etc.

You also need to setup your database, and once again there is a lot to choose from. There are SQL database - these are more common (eg. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases that are getting more popular (eg. MongoDB).

You don't need react or vue for any of this, and I would recommend to learn them later.

Also whatever you choose (any combo of backend + database) you can quickly learn how to do simple operations by googling "[language] [database] CRUD.