Description:

The idea is to spin a tale about how and why websites are built the way they are built today.

• A program to share a file via a network.
  • We write a mini python program that binds to port 80 and serves a folder
• Standardizing the files which are served.
  • We start writing simple HTML files
• Bringing names into the picture.
  • Configure DNS so that we can access this IP by name
• index.html + directory listing
  • Start showing directory listings
  • Switch to nginx instead of homespun file share system
  • A folder structure as a website
• Template systems
  • Generate HTML using templates
  • Reuse common elements
• HTML generators
  • Generate html using other sources of info
  • markdown to html
  • ipynb to html
• User accounts in static sites
  • How to allow people to have private info on a static site?
• Dynamic user accounts
  • Connecting HTML to databases
  • Store user account info in databases
  • Write a simple upstream web server to serve this info wrapped in HTML
• WSGI
  • What is wsgi
  • Write a wsgi app
  • Use it with your wsgi server written in previous phase
• Starting dynamic sites
  • Replace wsgi server with gunicorn
  • Write your own web framework
• The popular frameworks
  • Hello world in Django
  • Hello world in Flask

Then we take a moment to realize just how complicated modern websites can be.

Prerequisites:

• Linux dev environment. Preferably ubuntu

Video URL:

https://www.loom.com/share/5a9956500c354f97bf7c57146e226b62

Content URLs:

https://github.com/theSage21/webstory

Speaker Info:

I work as a web dev in my day job. Been doing things with python since 2013

Speaker Links:

https://www.arjoonn.com