Technical Foundation

[marksteve]

Let's discuss frameworks, services and dev flow.

Tools

• Python 3.5.x
• Node 4.x

Packages

• django
• django-environ
• django-pipeline for assets
• bootstrap v4
• pytest-django

Services

• sentry
• postgres 9.4+

CI/Deployment

• semaphore
• Docker or Ansible (TBD later)

Styleguides

• Design (WIP, separate repo)
• Python
• JavaScript

[marksteve]

My suggestions:

Packages

• django
• channels (for the newsletter)
• django-pipeline for assets
• basscss (???)

Services

• sentry
• postgres

Other thoughts

• Let's create a styleguide!
• Everybody can deploy
• GH flow?
• Think mobile and social (opengraph, messenger, etc.)

[marksteve]

Mozilla django template: https://github.com/mozilla/sugardough/

[darylyu]

Python 3 or 2? I would like to try Python 3.

Monolithic Django or Django API + HTML/JS client?

@marksteve

Re: Channels.

Can you describe the workflow?

Re: Deploying.

You okay with Ansible?

+1 for styleguide.

[marksteve]

@darylyu

Ok with Python 3. I've been trying to use it in new projects. Unfortunately, I'm forced to go back to 2 when I encounter libraries that don't support it :P But we can enforce it more here.

Let's do just Django. SPAs are fun but harder to test.

Channels: there's a bunch of django mailer packages but I wanted to try setting one up with channels. But in the interest of time, we can use out-of-the-box packages first.

Deploying: I prefer docker deployments :P Though I'm ok with ansible if you have playbooks ready. We're in DigitalOcean.

[darylyu]

I have playbooks ready, but wouldn't be opposed to Docker for development environments.

[marksteve]

@darylyu #3 (comment) Can you review and close if it looks good?

[darylyu]

@marksteve

LGTM. I can't close. I did a quick check and I think you need to add the repo to the team.

[marksteve]

@darylyu fixed repo permissions

[darylyu]

Reopened.

Postgres 9.5 so we can use better JSON fields. And Python 3.5 so we can have type hinting.

[marksteve]

Updated

[marksteve]

JSONField requires PostgreSQL ≥ 9.4 and Psycopg2 ≥ 2.5.4