Compiled from the “Development Tips” series, gathering practices around Git collaboration and development environment setup. 1. warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF Windows, Linux, and Mac are inconsistent in how they mark line endings in files. Windows uses CRLF as the terminator, while Linux and Mac use LF. Git

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Recently I was responsible for developing a backend-heavy application. The data flow in this application is complex, and the processing logic has piled up in a redundant mess. The project’s tech stack is Django + Vuejs. The frontend is bundled with Webpack, managed in modules, and mainly displays data. The backend involves many modules, many processing rules, and many data tables, so every time I had to modify an earlier feature I spent a lot of time reviewing the code.

1. Introduction Flask was born in 2010 and is a lightweight Web application framework written in Python. Flask depends on two libraries. Jinja2, a template engine similar to mako Werkzeug, a Python library that follows the WSGI protocol and implements much of what sits underneath a Web framework, such as the request and response objects.

To make it easier for CI to integrate UI automation tests, the Robot Framework runtime needs to be packaged as a Docker image. This post covers the configuration and scripts involved in the packaging process. 1. Packaging Directory Structure 1 2 3 4 5 6 tree . ├──