Backend Developer.md

Backend Developer

Company best practices

Git

• You create pull requests with proper name and description 📚
• You squash merge your pull requests 📚
• You name your commits properly 📚

GitHub

• You know how to create and reference issues
• You know how to verify when a build check failed

Communication

Slack

• You use Slack statuses in line with company policy (remote working, vacationing, in a meeting, etc)
• You know how to create groups and channels

Small Improvements

• You know how to give praise and add talk topics to a 1:1 meeting

Email

• You can configure local email client

Python

Frameworks

Django

django-fsm

• You can create State Machine with simple transitions 📚

django-cacheops

• You know how to configure defaults for models 📚
• You know how to disable caching for specific query

django-notifications-hq

• You know how to create a notification

django-modeltranslation

• Know how to translate Django models fields
• You know how to setup fallback language

django-hashid-field

• You have to configure salt and length of the hash
• You know how to use it as a PK

django-environ

• You know how to define defaults
• How to cast variables, including lists
• You can use helpers like db for connection strings

django-reversion

• How to declare a model with versioned history

django-inline-actions

• You are able to add your own action in Django admin panel
• You know how to set a custom name for an action

Django Enumeration types

• You know how to declare a type

Flask

• Define routes with http verbs
• How to setup an app config
• Use with storage, using DB of choice
• How to response with json and use http code constants

django-filter

• You can create full text search query
• You know how to use ordering query
• You can use it with DRF Generic View

Serverless Framework

• You can create simple HTTP endpoint using API gateway
• You know plugins to handle local development like serverless offline

Zappa

• You know how to scaffold a Django app

FastAPI

• You know how to create routing with query params
• You can query DB using one of asynchronous libraries
• You know how to use model in response

Utils

pydantic

• You know how to declare a model
• You can identify proper field types to model

boto3

• You know how to use resources
• You know how credentials are used, along with region

django-whitenoise

• Know how to setup static files served by a middleware

WeasyPrint

• You are able to render a PDF

ORM

Django ORM

• You are able to create Models

Sequelize

• You can create Model

sqlalchemy

• You know how to configure a connection

pynamodb

• You know how to create a model
• You know how to fetch by a hash or scan by props

Task Queues

Celery

• You are able to create a task
• You know how to use flower

Template engines

Jinja

• You know how to use it to render templates

pystashe

• You are able to render a template

Testing

Python

pytest

• Can setup a test case with multiple paths using fixtures
• You know how to add plugins

factory_boy

• You know how to create a factory
• You know how to create related factories

faker

• You know how to generate faked values using built-in providers

Node.js

Jest

• You know how to configure a test env
• You can describe a test using assertions

Performance Testing

Artillery.io

• You can create scenarios

Date & Time

Python

pytz

• You can convert timezones of datetime objects

Databases

SQL

PostgreSQL

• You know how to create foreign keys
• You know data types, including JSON

NoSQL

Firebase Firestore

• You know how to connect and create a collection
• You can listen for changes using live data updates

Redis

• You know what data types are supported

ElasticSearch

• You are able to define an index

MongoDB

• You know how to structure documents

Javascript

NodeJS

express

• You know how to create a json response
• You know how to fetch/persist data in DB

[Optional] mongoose

• You know how to create Model using Schema

3rd Party

Payment Services

Stripe

Python

• You can create a payment using django-stripe-payments

Authentication Services

[Optional] OAuth

[Optional] Auth0

• You know how to activate a provider
• You know how to upload custom templates

JWT

• You how used at least one library to work with JWT
• You can create JWT with custom payload

Contentful

• You can manage webhooks

Documenting

[Optional] Swagger

• You know how to annotate endpoints to describe it

[Optional] drf-yasg

• You know how to configure the view

[Optional] Redoc

• You know how to initialize it

Development Tools

[Optional] CLI

[Optional] httpie

• You can create requests with JSON payload

Code Analysis

Code Linters

flake8

• You know how to configure

Code Formatters

black

• You are able to adjust defaults

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