npbc VS awesome-docker

Well, there will probably be problems in your life that have a programming solution. For example, we subscribe to something like 5 newspapers billed monthly but with different prices per paper per weekday. We verify the vendor's calculations and it's bit of a chore. Perfect thing to automate with a script!

Another good example is command line arguments. I got started with argv and argc and wrote a rudimentary application with that. At some point I decided to migrate it to Python, and continued to use sys.argv there. Now, we (family) rely on that application, and I use argparse (Python) most of the time. In the context of this application, I'm currently learning about deployment and distribution (hence you'll find my makeshift "installation" instructions in the README). Once I figure that out, I'll switch to a existing tried and tested system.

I'm currently on a new version of the newspaper bill calculator (https://github.com/eccentricOrange/npbc) and it's still teaching me tons (more file i/o, good/bad practices, databases, regex, CI/CD, different kinds of UI like CLIs etc etc)...

The primary purpose of this project is for me to learn to use Flask. It usually takes me 4-5 ~rewrites~ revisions of a project to make it have some structure, and this one is only in v2. I've also had to learn a lot of stuff (Flask, virtually all of JS, some 80% of the CSS, the whole concept of a front- and back-end being split between a CLI and a browser, datetime module), so it's been somewhat tough to build as well. I don't always code like this.

The full codebase is available. At this point, I've completed most of the changes I need to make to the actual code, and push it to GitHub. https://github.com/eccentricOrange/npbc/tree/5c529dacbef0f9a1f8915a49dcca47834204aa09

Link: https://github.com/eccentricOrange/npbc/tree/efd5f37b82a42437a9ed0d61d20a8455dce6f0e0

This post is not a request for review, but if you want to get a sense of the size/number of files, here is a GitHub repo at a specific commit (so that all discussion is consistent). Is it okay to make a post requesting a review of this code? If not, do you know a place I could request someone to take a look?

Make sure that the "complex" problem you're solving is the same as your end goal. That's my main motivator: if I need an app to calculate newspaper bills, I need it. Learning about OOP (for example) outside of a problem where I really benefit from having it doesn't work so well for me.

When encountering a new technology, search for "awesome" lists on github. There are usually multiple (especially for popular topics), but the best ones usually bubble to the surface. https://github.com/veggiemonk/awesome-docker

Looks cool, although how is this any different then say a github repo? Or a repo that contains a list of other repos and project such as the awesome Docker one.

Awesome Docker

That's a very open request. There are a lot of projects available. You can look over Awesome Docker for many types of software. Some are self-contained. Some would expect you to be hosting a database. I would suggest PostgreSQL, as it is very capable and supported by pretty much every project.

prob find a lot of what you're looking for here Awesome Docker

Sorry I don't have read fully a docker book. But you can find something useful from here: https://github.com/veggiemonk/awesome-docker

Docker is a great tool to learn for this because everything can run on a single machine and still be isolated from your host OS as lightweight Linux machines: https://github.com/veggiemonk/awesome-docker

Haven't had a need to really start/stop a container based on a web call - but you might poke through the Orchestration here https://awesome-docker.netlify.app/ and see if something fits.