Understanding the connections between the different files, but once I had a mental graph of the connections I could get started with changes and also use ChatGPT to help me, with it doing all of the work in the end it feels like to me.

Creating the correct SQL statement which I probably did not succeed and is the reason why I did not finish. Also the problem how function calls seemingly did not work but I was just looking in the wrong place for console logs.

Understanding the codebase as it is just a test code base a lot of stuffs are done in the way that it shouldn't be.

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I'm not experienced in backend stuff so I had no clue how to write SQL statements or even checking something in the db. · I'm a learning by doing guy, but if nothing works in the first place and I cant experiment with stuff I'm kind of screwed... · I think the documentation was very good, but I couldn't figure out how to insert multiple columns at the same time, this wasn't as well documented, found some random stackoverflow post but this one didnt work since the app used some other SQL string format. More time and I would have eventually got it, but extremely inefficient. Asking AI could have helped, usually the answers are a little more customised and if they dont work I can ask again.

That you need to add the response of the POST-request with res.json(registeredUser); · (instead of just return registeredUser;) · Getting the correct SQL Lite Insert statement

I didn't think that the functions from bcrypt to hash and compare a password returned a Promise which lead to a bug.

correctly connecting front and backend because if I want the AI to fix it for me, it requires multiple files and functions. In my case, I spent a lot of time just realizing that my code has one unnecessary return null.

I wans't able to solve the problem of redirecting to logged-in page and it was hard to figure out what i needed to modify.

At the end i still didnt really know what was going on. Therefore it was hard when bugs occurred.

Lack of GPT. Without gpt, i couldnt decide where to start and i just lost my confidence.

socket hangup error(probably due to OpenDB). · For me it was difficult to find proper documentation for OpenDB implementation with react and the documentation on GitHub was not very helpful.

I had difficulties understanding the necessity of the individual steps. First i had to understand the architecture and understand which component uses which other component and how they communicate. I found it difficult to know where exactly what is being defined. Because there is a User.ts file, the auth controllers file and also the internalClient. They all contain a registerUser functionality, so when the internalClient also had a registerUser method i was confused on whether i had correctly understood the task. With ChatGPT i was advancing and it helped me understand what was going on, but the problem then arose to find out why my code wasn't working and why i couldn't register. Trying to bugfix and actually find out what was being sent and why i couldn't register my user was hard, because i wasn't quite sure what i was doing.

Using vscode, navigating the long list of files

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types and getting into the the project structure

Fixing backend encountering error during the registration request 500

I am very hard to find a example for the technology stack.

To see the big picture while solving the task.

I do not understand how db requests work and how those different files are connected with each other/how they need to work with each other.

I have no previous experience in larger code bases that use this exact tech stack (SoPra was the only one, but the tech stack was different), so it took me a while to get used to what all components are doing and how they interconnect. E.g. I have never used GraphQL or JWT token.

I never worked with express before, so I did not how it worked.

Had difficulties understanding how the different components worked together. I also had some trouble with the javascript syntax, since I didn't work with it very often.

proof-reading ChatGPT

understanding how to set up the auth.controller properly with the correct typer. Actually, most of the code I would take very long to understand without ChatGPT explanations or even solutions from Task 1

I was stuck at one point and couldn't move any further. Since the codebase is large, it's hard to find the solution in such a short time. Also, not using LLMs like ChatGPT was another challenge because it's a inevitable part of the coding process nowadays.

Getting to know the project and balance between how much AI and how much DIY

Unfamiliarity with the tech stack

Same as before, unfamiliarity with the tech stack and the codebase

I was unfamiliar with how to do specific things in the specific technologies, and which parts were connected (called each other)

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