I’m using Starlette for a pet project because it’s a modern Python framework that has GraphQL support. I had trouble integrating it with a Single Page App, but I found an easy fix. My client-side app gets built in the build/ directory, so just adding StaticFiles gets you off the ground: The History API makes…
Read More Serving SPAs from StarletteThere is a war going on. A war between those that say Python requirements should be explicit and those that say requirements should be implicit. Before I continue, I’m going to be talking about requirements.txt, not setup.py. The difference between explicit and implicit requirements comes down to whether the line says Django==1.9.7 or Django, respectively.…
Read More requirements.txt==2.0For years, my tool for simple load tests of HTTP sites has been ApacheBench. For years, my reference for how to visualize ApacheBench results has been Gnuplot For years, my reference for how to use Gnuplot has been http://www.bradlanders.com/2013/04/15/apache-bench-and-gnuplot-youre-probably-doing-it-wrong/ But do you really want to be writing Gnuplot syntax? It turns out that Pandas will…
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[update: This post has been corrected, thanks to my commenters for your feedback] Every Django management command gets the verbosity option for free. You may recognize this: optional arguments: -h, –help show this help message and exit -v {0,1,2,3}, –verbosity {0,1,2,3} Verbosity level; 0=minimal output, 1=normal output, 2=verbose output, 3=very verbose output We rarely use…
Read More Django management commands and verbosityWith 12factor style environment configs, it’s a very easy to accidentally connect to your production database when you think you’re connecting to dev. Here’s a simple guard you can add to make sure your DATABASE_URL isn’t somehow pointed to someplace it’s not supposed to (assuming you’re using Amazon AWS): bash: if [[ ${DATABASE_URL} == *”amazonaws”*…
Read More Patterns: don’t mess up the prod db!So tonight I decided I’ve been putting it off far enough, and started my first Sphinx documentation project. Read The Docs’s Getting Started guide wasn’t bad, but it really bothered me that there wasn’t a good way to autobuild the docs.
Read More Autobuilding Sphinx Docs With inotifyIf you examine the repo, you’ll see it’s a Django app; and the Procfile and requirements.txt would make you think the app itself was deployed on Heroku, but you would be wrong! You may be surprised to find out that the Elevators Explorer is a static HTML app. Or maybe not if you read the…
Read More Dissecting Elevators Part 8: deployingIntro: This is part five of an eight part series looking at the Elevator Explorer, a fun data interactive mostly coded between the hours of 10 PM to 2 AM during the week leading up to April Fools’ Day, 2013. I’m going to be looking at the things I learned, things I wish I could…
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