Neovim setup / Tisbury Treasure Hunt / django-stubs - Building SaaS #153

Notes

In this episode, I updated and supercharged my editor by switching to Neovim. After that, we did an Exercism excercise that looked at Python tuples. Then I started on a new issues for my SaaS, but pivoted to adding django-stubs to improve the type hinting in the code.

Join my newsletter to learn about Python and Django with 1,600+ other developers!

Newer

#python
#django
#drf
#django rest framework

Backend Development 101 with Django REST Framework

If you’re familiar with Python, you’ve most certainly heard of Django, but may not know what it is used for and why people like it so much. We will first run through a …

Older

#Python
#types

Gimme a (Type) Hint in Python

Types are a core part of understanding how Python works. This Python Frederick presentation introduces Python types (like str, int, float), explains how Python uses types, shows how to use …

If you like my work and you want to say thanks, you can become a patron on Patreon. Thanks for supporting me!

Check out my Patreon Superhero supporters!

Django Riffs is my podcast devoted entirely to learning the Django web framework. Give it a listen!

All the shows are on the Show Notes page.

Book Recommendations

My library is full of technical books. Many of these were hugely influencial in helping me be a better software engineer.

Check out my favorite software books on the Book Recommendations page.

If you enjoyed this article, you may also be interested in…

Blackjack and Bugs - Building SaaS with Python and Django #151

In this episode, we started with a Python exercise on Exercism that explored Blackjack. We wrote functions that handled some of Blackjack’s core rules. After the Python exercise, we focused on a bug in the Django app that fixed an edge case with some the teacher checklist feature.

Development Cached Templates - Building SaaS with Python and Django #150

In this episode, I ran through a Python exercise on Exercism that focused on strings. Then we moved onto the homeschool app and fixed an issue with templates that were cached during development because of changes in Django 4.1.

Ellen's Alien Game / Display Related / Neovim config - Building SaaS with Python and Django #157

In this episode, I did another Exercism problem in Python that focused on Python classes. After the exercise, I deployed my model change from last stream and discussed deployment strategy. Then we worked on some of the display pieces for the new feature. Once the feature was added, I discussed performance testing and showed some performance problems that the new feature created that I then fixed. We ended the stream with some Neovim configuration to correct some LSP formatting problems.

Inventory Management / Custom 404 page / Go gqlgen - Building SaaS #154

In this episode, I did another Exercism problem in Python which focused on working with dictionaries. Once the exercise was complete, we worked on the homeschool app and created a custom 404 page so that Django would render something beyond a plain page. After working on Django, I did something totally different and worked on some Go code and used gqlgen to create a GraphQL service with generated code produced via a GraphQL schema.

Locomotive Engineer / New Model Field - Building SaaS with Python and Django #156

In this episode, I did another Exercism problem in Python that focused on Python packing and unpacking of arguments. Once the exercise was complete, I started on a new feature with the homeschool app. We added a new model field in preparation for the changes. After that, I removed django-stubs because it wasn’t a good fit for my project.