Web App Development Essentials

Click Web App Development Essentials

Tools

These are the tools that you absolutely must have and why

Tool	What it does	Why you need it	Included in Anaconda?
Django	Makes backend web development easy	Whaaaat? You don't know why? Just use it and find out...	Yes
dj-database-url	URL-encodes database connections	Small Django extension which allows you to set database connections in an application & platform agnostic way. (Note, if you want to take the next step, consider django-environ )	No
static and dj-static	Serves static media better than Django	A Django extension for serving static files simply and effectively. _Note: Possible upgrade to whitenoise	No
django-debug-toolbar	Debugging for Django	Because debugging.	No
nose and django-nose	A better testing framework for Python and Django	Because testing.	Yes
redis and django-redis	Fast caching of your site	Redis is an advanced key-value-pair database which can be used as your Django Cache storage to speed up your web application	Yes
gunicorn	Light-weight web server for Python	Much more light-weight than something like Apache, and integrates with Django & WSGI out of the box. Used for the Heroku platform as you need to install your own Web Server	Yes
ipdb	Python's 'pdb' debug tool with additional IPython functionality	If you are used to using pdb then you don't necessarily need this, but it's recommended as a better version if pdb	No. However Anaconda does come with IPython
IPython	A powerful and versatile interactive Python interpreter	Just trust us.	Yes
psycopg2	Python DB interface module for Postgres	Click uses postgreSQL by default, and this is the most popular Python iterface to Postgres.	Yes
pytz	Brings advanced timezone support to Python, allowing you to build apps using timezones without thinking too hard	Because timezones require thinking hard	Yes
python-dateutil	Extensions to the standard python datetime module	Advanced date and time functions	Yes
requests	Advanced handling of HTTP requests	Because no-one likes urllib2. Or possibly ever did. (Unless of course you like httplib2...)	Yes
virtualenvwrapper	Manages python dependencies on a per-project basis	Allows you to run multiple project on the same OS instance independently of each other	No, but VirtualEnv is
AutoEnv	Manipulate environment settings dependent on your folder location	Allows you to easily assign environment variables relevant only to your project	No

Platforms, Architectures and Philosophies

The following is a list of Platforms, Architecture and Philosophies that Click Engineering projects are built on.

Django

The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines. Probably the most extensive Python-Web-Framework out there. Does so many things out of the box.

Heroku

Platform for deploying web applications. Goes well with Django

12Factor App

A philosophy for making your web app simple, scalable, easy to deploy and develop and suited to modern cloud platforms.