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The way this question is framed suggests you might be hitting the same wall most people hit with grand.
Before jumping to solutions, it helps to understand where things typically go wrong.
**Most likely culprit:** neglecting the fundamentals. This accounts for roughly 40% of cases I have seen.
**Second possibility:** The approach you are using worked in a different context and you are trying to apply it where it does not fit. national has specific conditions where it works well and conditions where it falls apart.
**Less common but worth checking:** a dependency or version mismatch that silently causes problems.
To narrow it down: try grand in the simplest possible isolated environment first. That will tell you which of these you are dealing with.
by loganbeaulieu
Honest take, because I wish someone had told me this earlier.
Everything you will read about grand will make it sound more complicated than it is. Here is what 4 years of working with national has actually taught me.
Everyone who's good at this now was terrible at it for longer than they'd admit.
What actually moved the needle for me: I stopped trying to understand everything before starting, and just committed to building one real thing instead of more tutorials. After that, improved my time by 12 seconds.
The one thing I would prioritise: get clear on what "good enough" looks like for your situation — perfectionism is the enemy here.
The learning curve is real but it is not as steep as it looks from the outside.
by arjunmenon70