
Thinking about what comes next.
I'm done with my Django for APIs book. It was a good introduction to building an API, but left me wanting more. It's a short book - it only took me 3 days to work through it, and I didn't run into any serious issues along the way. I'm thinking about how to make an API that I can use with this blog somehow, for demonstration purposes. I'd like to find a book about Django that builds just one project and fleshes it out more completely than what the Django books I've read so far do. Django for APIs has a section in which you build a small website using Django as the backend and React for the frontend. I'd like to do more of that kind of thing and learn to develop a website start-to-finish. Before I picked up the Django books I've read recently, I worked through a series of YouTube videos about developing Django websites with Vue as the frontend. Those videos were challenging, as they covered material I hadn't seen before (like serializers), and the "author" went through it at a very fast pace. You can find the videos by going to YouTube and searching for "Code with Stein", he has several videos that cover different projects. I especially liked the one that built an e-commerce website and wanted to take it live on the Web, but sadly the video didn't cover deploying it on a server or hosted service. So I'll have to figure that out on my own, like I had to do when I built this blog. Now I'm left wondering what to do next.