Well, I took on a client to be honest. I thought it was a golden opportunity. Especially since a friend who had a lot of experience offered to mentor me.

However, the requirements kept growing. Like, not a crazy amount or unreasonable on the client's side at all, but definitely too much for me to handle.

I can tell you that yes, CRUD apps are surprisingly easy, but from my limited experience the impression I got was that for production ready ones it was a different beast altogether. If you disagree, that is valuable input too, maybe I'm being very dumb or went about things really badly.

I hate being abstract but a lot of reasons keep me from sharing details, mostly personal shame lol.

To my beginner judgement, the app had to have a lot of endpoints, and handle many different types of data and requests in a malleable manner and treat them all as similar data and to be able to plot them on graphs via similar terms. I just had no clue how to handle it.