Building My First Flask App: A Next.js Developer‘s Perspective
8 min readWhat building a Flask REST API looks like when you‘re coming from Next.js. Spoiler: Flask routes are way simpler than I expected.
What building a Flask REST API looks like when you‘re coming from Next.js. Spoiler: Flask routes are way simpler than I expected.
How I set up a Python development environment using uv, coming from a TypeScript/Next.js background. Spoiler: it‘s a lot like modern JavaScript tooling.
How I fixed painfully slow Docker builds by implementing Next.js build caching that works with GitHub Actions.
How I automated weekly PR creation from Google Sheets data using Python, GitHub Actions, and Slack notifications
Real-world TGW deployment patterns, multi-account architectures, and the gotchas that will bite you in production.
My personal checklist that gets me from create-next-app to a fully configured development environment.