I already know software engineering and can code web applications and use genai sdk in my apps.

But I still can't easily figure out to deploy my apps to a VPS.

So far I have manually set up my server and database.

I want learn more on devops to deploy it using containers.

This will enable me to host mutiple service in a VPS and I don't have to use PAAS solutions.

I can also easily switch providers too.

My experience is you can learn this between dev tasks. Find a way to automate deployment (I did ansible)and monitor(eabbix or grafana). Plan, say, half an hout weekly time to review monitoring and logs. Also handle crashes and severe errors in a systemic way, automating them away. Do this for a few months and you've learned devops.

I use CapRover with Hetzner, and it's been a breeze - half a day max. Don't remember the last time I deployed one of my services on managed infra.

To aid my process to shortlist house for purchase I am creating a web app for this.

The app will use genai to extract the details of houses listed for sale and then update my custom database.

For example I can input a youtube url and it will fetch the transcript and use llm to generate Json response based on predefined schema.

I can review and shortlist the houses based on various custom parameters using the web interface.

The mvp is done in a proprietary tech stack, I just need to port it to open source tech stack with React and FastAPI

Hi there, I'm working on something similar for the UK. Happy to chat if you'd be interested in exchanging ideas.

I have been just splitting my head to parse data from from a erp database to csv and then from csv to erp database again using the programming language user by erp system.

The first part of converting data to csv works fine with help of ai coding assistant.

The reverse part of csv to database is getting challenging and even claude sonnet 3.7 is not able to escape newline correctly.

I am now implementation the data format in json which is much simpler.

I took a 5 months break to create a web app for personal finance. It calculates the amount you need for achieving financial Independence and simulates the expenses, networth, and income with time based on investment returns and inflation rate

https://zerotoinfinity.org

You can turn off some safety filters off when using gemni pro api. I use it on my own custom chatbot

I tried at least 5 Charting Libraries before settling for Echarts.

I used it with React. My app is mostly financial data simulation and analysis and echarts fit the need

The documentation is great and with some tweaking you can make it look great. The customizing options are quite good.

I prefer it to some react only charting libraries .

Hmm looks like similar to python. I hope something like pandas also come to, so that I can do all complex claculations client side instead of doing it with python backend

> If you wanted to operate on or compare more than one set, you had to write your own functions.

This may be a 20th century viewpoint, but I would hesitate to call anyone who couldn't write all of these functions a programmer.

Introducing network round trips to use convenient syntax seems ... suboptimal.

Using pandas or numpy is more than uisng optimal syntax

There is a reason why python is used for ML for mathematical calculations. You could do all low level matrix multiplication using custom functions uisng any language. But is that optimal way to dob that.

My use case is similar

Fair enough; where's the breakeven?

Web app is possible with Django but creating mobile version will be challenging as options are not much.

Your best option is to create backend api with python frameworks like Django Rest Frameworks or FastAPI. Frontend can be React which can be used for both web and mobile using React Native.

I had previous experience in python but had to learn React to handle similar requirements.

It's always best to use the right tool for right job.

I am actually satisfied that I went this route, added new skills and possibilities

Sounds good, thank you. I will consider React for the frontend part of my app.

Astro is great, using it for my blog site and. I have a mono repo setup React SPA and Astro For Blog. I can create a reusable component in React Repo and reuse in Astro blog.

You could also write native astro components which are very close to vanilla html css with added benifit of making reusable components and scoped css. And you can also use svelte or vue components.