Old school coder living and developing in New Orleans.
CONTENT WARNING: WINDOWS Yes, I am on a Windows machine. I am a cheapskate, and Windows 10 and forward also have a reasonable Linux layer built in (Windows Subsystem Linux), so it's livable these days. Yes, I also know my way about Unix/Linux and oth...
So, now that we've defined our app's backend in broad strokes, what's our stack going to be? Here we go... Python 3; pre Python 3 is OK, but this isn't the stone age anymore Flask framework; it's pretty standard for REST endpoints, and easy to learn...
So, let's go over the architecture basics for the backend. First off, we're going to go with an industry standard way for modern backends and frontends to communicate: REST services communicating using JSON data. This has taken over the industry for ...
The app we'll be developing to work our way through doing a backend in Python 3 (sorry, pre Python 3 is dead insofar as we're concerned) will be a pet adoption app for the mythical Crescent City Shelter (yes, I'm from New Orleans, so deal). People ne...
Yes, I am not a kid. Yes, I have experience, particularly with backend code. And yes, anything I can do is achievable. My home rig is a Lenovo laptop with a Ryzen CPU, 32 Gb of memory and a 1 Tb SSD drive. Meat and potatoes, cost me right at $1K bran...
So, I've been getting in the mix more lately with other developers on Twitter, and something several of us noticed is there's a lot of focus on front end development and frameworks and hardly any on the backend. Yes, it's all of a piece, and you have...
