I tried postman on my old machine (Hp 6715b) and it was slow. It took so much RAM and processing power that I couldn't run any other app simultaneously with postman, else it's BSOD :D. So I set out to build a stripped down postman with Quasar; a Vue Js UI framework, and Electron. It might be half baked, but it's usable.
The name is coined from Ingausa; a creole of Hausa and English language. "Yaro" means boy in Hausa language.
With the addition of async to django core, I felt its time to finally learn the concept. I first took interest in async early last year when I re-read a medium post on Japronto; an async python web framework that claims to be faster than Go and Node.
Since then, I've been on the lookout for introductory posts about async but all I see is snippets from the docs with little or no modifications and a lame (or maybe I'm too dumb) attempt at explaining it.
I picked up multi threaded programming few weeks ago and I understand (correct me if I'm wrong) it does have similarities with asynchronous programming, but I just don't see where async fits in the puzzle.
Clothing vendors (whom were my primary target) find difficulty putting their products online, major ecommerce players in the country require one to be residing in Lagos before one can use their platforms, and most them took lion share of the profits.
I felt a catalog platform (where no buying and selling between vendors and their customers occur) will be best, since the vendors prefer dealing with customers directly as they get their money in full. I ran it by some vendor friends and stranger vendors, they promised to signup for the beta phase.
When the project was in beta, they bailed. Without users to help me with feedback, I felt demotivated and abandoned it.
I think the fault is from my failure to get an MVP ready asap, I ran into problems with my PC at that time. To add salt to injury, whatsapp business accounts added catalogue feature, pushing me out of market I never entered. After all, if the vendors can get it for free, why pay.
I'll shut the server down month ending and focus on freelancing gigs.
This book is especially good for beginners in python, it feels as if the author is teaching you in person. All the exercises in every chapter builds to a mini project by the end of that chapter.
One can skip the basics section and jump into the projects section which has: Alien Invasion (game programming with pygame), Data Visualization, and Web Development (using Django).