Pixies: Build an app with Django, React and Docker

Docker in a nutshell Docker allows you to create self-contained turnkey images which contain everything one needs to run your application. These can be copied, shared, uploaded and deleted, when not needed anymore. When I need to run PostgreSQL or, say, Redis on my box I do not bother anymore installing this software and pollute my hard-drive. I just pull corresponding image and run it on my box. When I don’t need the image anymore I simply delete it and my hard-disk is back to the state it was before. [Read More]

What is this Webpack thing, anyway? Your typical front-end project is made of a bunch of html, css and javascript files. Also, your javascript code undoubtedly calls into various third party libraries to accomplish its purpose, these, in turn, have their own dependencies and so on. You provide necessary <script> links in your html files, carefully making sure that these are included in the right order, so the dependencies are satisfied. [Read More]

Why this tutorial? I assume you are competent enough software developer. Maybe at your work you are involved with building some enterprise-y Java Spring application or, maybe Asp.Net application or something equally boring. Obviously you are not living in vacuum, so you are hearing all those terms Docker, React, Single Page Application, 12 factor methodology and so on. They sound cool but, in part, a little frightening. Your skills seem kind of obsolete. [Read More]