Continuous Web Development with Flask & Jenkins

We’ve all heard of Continuous Integration (CI). This blog post is a practical example of the topic with web development in Python and CI with Jenkins. A bit of Test Driven Development (TDD) is practiced. Ultimately it’s the reader’s choice to figure out what’s right your themselves. Why CI? The idea is to create a process of which in practice builds foundation for software. A safety net to catch defects early is part of the side effect, localizing complex systems into micro parts and test them to ensure quality over time. [Read More]

Compiled and Minified Assets with Flask-Assets & Webassets

All these times coding in PHP, I have yet to experience an elegant way to compile and minify assets including but not limited to CoffeeScript, JavaScript and or CSS. Watchers for specific transcompiler were needed and it blocks me from coding straight up. Well Python and Flask specifically is giving me sweet dreams. Have a look first at Flask-Assets and then dive in to Webassets. FYI, Flask-Assets if you set it up as your dependency will include Webassets also. [Read More]