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Web App Development Essentials
Richard Forshaw edited this page Apr 14, 2015
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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 |
| 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 |
The following is a list of Platforms, Architecture and Philosophies that Click Engineering projects are built on.
The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines. Probably the most extensive Python-Web-Framework out there. Does so many things out of the box.
Platform for deploying web applications. Goes well with Django
A philosophy for making your web app simple, scalable, easy to deploy and develop and suited to modern cloud platforms.