For the last several years I have been developing small and medium sized Django backend applications both, as an outsource developer-consultant and in-house. Sometimes small Django projects grow up and become medium sized ones. However the initial development phase of a small Django project may include these steps: Understand the requirements Design the entities Bootstrap the project Implement models (entities and relations) Write the views and hook them to urls (APIs) Add tests Fix and tune the app Then comes the time to share the work.

At Ontruck we use the Django framework for one of our services. This “automagically” implies that almost anything we end up doing is done in Python (backend). I have always liked Django development and used it in a fair amount of projects. However years go by and new tech stack and tools appear. Then they mature to the point where they’re stable and “production ready”. Lately I have being assigned the task of building a web app prototype for a specific group of users.

My name is Gabriel, I work as a full stack developer at OnTruck. From 2012 till 2018 I have been developing websites and backend apps on Django framework. I would consider myself backend dev with basic html and bootstrap skills back then. In 2018 I began tackling with frontend development focusing on ReactJS and ES6. I have also tried React Native and discovered Expo. All this was new to me and felt promising.