backend.md

Backend Development

Getting started

1. Start with Django. Complete the tutorial on Django Girls (the blog app).
2. Get good at modelling data with databases. I recommend doing this with a project. Check this repo out for comprehensive projects in Django - (make sure you read up about best practices for implementing data models while you're doing the assignment and not before it.)
3. Make something interesting with what you learnt.
4. Learn how to implement JSON APIs in Django and how to use them with front end (your front end knowledge might help here).
5. Make something using a JSON API.
6. At this point you'll know enough Django to make pretty much whatever you want. Its up to you if you wanna stick with it. I'd recommend abandoning it for a while and trying out a different framework (I'd recommend trying node + express - it'll give you exposure to NoSQL databases and out-of-the-browser javascript.).
7. If you did point 6, you'll know what to learn next based on your own experience.

Learning Resources:

• BITSACM - Backend Blogs
  • Graphene to setup GraphQL queries with Django
• Introduction to APIs Tutorial
• Pretty Printed - Django Video Tutorials
• Learning Article
• SessionStack - Javascript Tutorials
• Tango with Django Book
• simpleisbetterthancomplex: Blog for more elegant use of django.
• Django Microservices
• Understanding RPC, REST and GraphQL: Blog on the API paradigms
• Authorization with GraphQL

Extras:

• Django Redirects Blog on django redirects
• Checkmate 2019 - 2: Link to play the game. Github Repo
• Autohost: Shell scripts for quick production and deployment of web apps
• Boilerplate for Django

Tools

• Postman: Test APIs
• Sqlite Browser: Browser for the database
• Ngrok or localtunnel: To get a url to your local server
• iproxy: Image Proxy for Node.js

Tasks:

• Winter 2019-20 SIG Tasks
• Ecommerce App