Preface

The aim of this book is to show you how to develop a web application using industry best practices and place it in a running production environment. We’ll do this by creating a working to-do app. This app is live at tozo.dev, and all the code for it is available under the MIT license at github.com/pgjones/tozo.

The development blueprint presented in this book is based on one I’ve used to successfully build apps before, including for my own start-up a few years ago. The technology used here has been chosen because of its popularity in the industry, with Python, NodeJS, and Terraform being popular tools for full-stack development, and AWS being a popular cloud infrastructure provider.

I started writing this book as the guide I wish I’d had when I started my full-stack engineering career. I’ve tried to answer as many of the questions that I had when I started and introduce much of the vocabulary I was missing. Over the past year, I’ve been refining and using this blueprint to help guide and develop junior engineers in their first industrial jobs. I hope it helps you to build great apps too!