As someone who loves experimenting with Python libraries and APIs, starting new projects quickly is important.

I recently went throught the process to put my side project howbigisthebaby.io on Digital Ocean's new app platform, and wanted to document it in case anyone else found it helpful (or atleast me revisiting this later).

As a developer, every day we interact with remote APIs and web servers. Almost all services we consume on the internet today are available in the form of an API: weather forecasts, geolocation services, Twitter feeds, and so on.

Been meaning to write this post for my future self, who’s invariably going to forget the steps to set up Django on a new machine.