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Deploying small web applications can take up more time than creating the application itself, for this reason I've put together this small guide to document how I go about deploying applications. I've used this method for things like small business sites, demo sites and application prototypes. Although we will go through a Python Flask application the same method would apply to other micro web apps. The final running application will have a few moving parts, here is how it will handle two incoming requests: Our final implementation will comprise three Docker containers: - Our frontend reverse proxy server - nginx - Our WSGI server Gunicorn and application server Flask - An example ancillary service - a redis cache To follow along grab the code from https://github.com/hardbyte/python-app-deploy In this post we’ll create a small standalone flask application that uses redis for a cache. The same deployment method works for applications that require services like mem...

Thought I'd share a component I've been hacking on for angular2: a syntax highlighted markdown editor with rendered preview. The code including a basic example is available on github . Because Angular2 hasn't yet been released this is really just me kicking the tyres. This component relies on two libraries: -  marked  for rendering markdown as html - and  ace editor  for editing markdown Basic Usage Example Add to your html template: < markdown-editor ( save )= "updatedText($event)" [ initial-text ]= "markdownContent" > </ markdown-editor > Remember to include the Markdown directive in your @Component annotation: @Component ({ selector: 'about' , directives: [ CORE_DIRECTIVES , Markdown ] }) Another Example You can also control the component with external ui: < button ( click )= "md.editMode = true" > Custom Edit Button </ button > < markdown-editor [ init...