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I finally wrote and deployed my first #django app this week.
I have played with #rails and #phoenix for the past few decades, but I haven’t dug hard into django as every app i have worked on or overseen would not benefit much from the admin interface.
I am the only one working on this app, and it's for me only, and I didn't care if the admin interface adhered to a very specific design spec. In fact, i am the only one wjho will probably ever see the admin interface.
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in all, I spent about three days to go from sketch to deployed app. Most of that was spent figuring out how non-trivially connect to @digitalocean Spaces.
The rest was really not bad.
if you have already been writing software for a bazillion years, and understand a few webframeworks, here are a few links that will get you up and running (and done):
https://www.mostlypython.com/django-from-first-principles-2/
Deploying wasn't trivial, but it wasn't bad. It pretty much went like any first time monkeying with an unfamiliar tech.
Keep a chatbot handy and dump error logs there, and you’ll be up and running quickly.
i have several projects coming up that don't need a massively spec back end. I will most definitely use #django for these.
I should mention that i used #TailwindCSS for this project, and the set up for that was pretty much effortless.
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every other framework i have used had the concept of "environments" where you could have several configurations to choose from.
It's not hard to overcome. you can maintain a local .env file to set up the app in dev mode locally. but i feel like it would lbe clearer with multiple settings files.
I ended up deploying to @digitalocean #AppPlatform . I didn't shop around for options at all.
@digitalocean has a great document on how to deploy, and it works.
This app was a quick burn with little complexity. I have always read that deploying was very difficult, so i kept away from #django.
some takes about crafting in #django
- Django doesn't hold tight to the conventtion over configuration mantra. This makes some things much easier, so not so much, but it's not a deal killer.
- Django is a little different than what i have been used to in that there is only one settings.py file. Every other framework i have used .. more
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