Technology Guide

A Compilation of resources

Technology guides and setup

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/Django Django Tutorial and setup guide
• https://docs.mongodb.com/tutorials/ MongoDB tutorials (Top 3 entries are install guides for Linux, OSX, and windows)
• https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Channels package to use websockets in django (socket.io not friendly with django)

Documentation

• https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/mongo-shell/ Quick reference guide to mongo shell commands
• https://www.pubnub.com/blog/2015-01-05-websockets-vs-rest-api-understanding-the-difference/ Understand the difference between Websockets and REST

Django

*https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9262278/django-view-returning-json-without-using-template Using Django to return json instead of rendering a template (to front-back end interfacing)