– Converting an older PHP app into Django and motivation for picking Django

– Switching from Django templates to a DRF API back-end with a React front-end

– Webpack is being used to bundle all of the assets

– Hosted on DigitalOcean, gunicorn and nginx is being used, plus cron jobs too

– Switching from PostgreSQL back to SQLite and being productive

– Useful Python and Django libraries that helped get things going

– nginx is serving SSL certs created by Let’s Encrypt and picking DigitalOcean

– The server was set up by hand and he also uses WSL on Windows for local testing

– What it’s like to deploy a new feature from development to production

– Database backups are done manually and also by DigitalOcean’s backup feature

– Database migrations are kind of a pain

– Best tips? Don’t be afraid to read other people’s source code

– You can find Denis on GitHub at https://github.com/Denis-Step/