My first real coding project broke in 10 minutes flat

I spent last weekend building a little to-do list app using HTML, CSS, and some basic JavaScript. I was so proud when it actually worked on my computer, even added a dark mode toggle. Then I showed my friend and the whole thing crashed when she tried to add a task with an emoji in the name. The console just lit up with red errors and I had no idea what any of them meant. I spent like 3 hours googling and eventually found out it was a problem with how I was handling special characters in the input field. I had to learn about sanitizing user input and escaped characters from scratch. Has anyone else had their first project break in a super simple way like this?

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miab1618d ago

Oh man, I once broke a game I made by typing my own name wrong.

the_stella18d ago

Laughing but only because I've been there. My first project crashed because someone typed "null" into a text box and my code freaked out like it was a personal attack.