A collection of tutorials covering some popular tools and techniques for Python web development, including how to use Docker/LXD to containerize Python web apps, how to set up CI for your app for free with GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket, and where to deploy your apps. 

Python Web Development: Tools

Preface

In the past, if you wanted to set up a continuous integration (CI) and deployment pipeline for your team, you had to download and configure Jenkins on your local server. Nowadays, you can simply hop onto cloud-hosted CI/CD providers such as Buddy , CircleCI and Travis CI .

Setting Up Free CI for Python Web Apps on GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket

In this guide, we’ll look into how we can supercharge our Python web development workflow using Visual Studio Code extensions. There are currently thousands of free extensions written to support Python frameworks and platforms on VS Code. Do note that many of them haven’t been maintained in a while as they’re free to use and lack financial backing. For this guide, we’ll look at extensions that are popular and are being actively maintained and/or being developed.

Visual Studio Extensions for Python Web Development

In production environments, containers allow us to encapsulate an entire environment in a reproducible and portable way. We can bootstrap a very complex setup in less than five minutes, and we can distribute it between the production environment and multiple members of the development team, making sure that they all have a uniform setup. Whoever has had to deal with nvm or RubyGems, with versions of packages, and debug their error messages knows what this means.

Containerizing Python Web Apps with Docker/LXD

You’ve completed your code on your Python project. It’s time to share your app to the intended audience. But where should you deploy your app? In this tutorial, we’ll cover various types of hosting options for deploying your Python app.

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