Web Forum From Scratch Without Using Any Template Or Theme

My guess is HTML, CSS, javascript, and some basic coding. May i ask why you would want to start from scratch?

well starting from scratch is ok but you'd have to hire a programmer I think do you know what that costs? if you were going to take that kind of expense and its gonna be that awesome make it something to sell to others so you can recoop your expenses. but seriously I'm from a time when a forum script was not even available why wouldn't you take advantage of the increases in technology. do research find out which is the best script at least and then decide.

Why do you want that?

HTML/CSS/JavaScript are going to be the core competencies that you'll need for front-end development. CSS will usually be taught with an HTML class, JavaScript on it's own. Try to find a JavaScript class that also covers JQuery. A subscription to Pluralsight will provide on-line training for all suggested tech.

After getting the fundamentals down then you'll be able to understand and make decisions on what kind of library or framework that you'd like to use to boost productivity during development. The two leading choices right now are Angular (open source from Google) and ReactJS (open source from Facebook). Angular is a full featured framework, ReactJS is a simple library. You'll pick one or the other depending on preference.

The back-end is going to serve your application to users and store data. You have a lot of choices for this. A good one is GCS (Google Cloud Services). Google's Cloud services offer competitive pricing and excellent PaaS (Platform as a service) options with AppEngine and Google Kubernetes Engine.

There's a lot of moving parts in GCS, but I suggest focusing on learning about AppEngine and FireBase. AppEngine will serve your app and auto scale as the load increases or decrease, FireBase Cloud is going to make it very easy to build, maintain, store and integrate with data. It's part of the "Server-less" movement.

How powerful are we talking about here?

Firstly, web forums are slowly dying out. Secondly, you're just better off creating a Facebook Group or something similar.

I would like to personally thank the Starter of this thread for all their participation and involvement. We need more members like you

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