Jello: Python Web Boilerplate

An open-source boilerplate using Python and other web technologies that you can clone to spin off web tools really fast and then configure them easily per your need.

Scope & Features

Web Backend on Flask

• Website back end application server on Python Flask
• APIs to serve data in JSON format per microservice architecture
• Python modules filter, aggregate and reshape data in backend
• Real-time reactivity: auto-refresh content in UI on updates to the backend data models by other users (such as in case of comments)

Postgres Database, Connectors & CRUD

• Relational Database Schema for Content Curation & Social Networking Web App
• Database connectors and reusable functions to execute custom SQL queries - read & write to the DB
• Let users create, edit and delete content

User Management System

• Social Logins such as Google. Facebook, LinkedIn sign-in
• Custom user registration, login, logout
• Session management

Database Polling & Messaging using WebSockets

• Setup websockets
• Implement for polling the SQL database for changes & push updates to UI
• Implement for messaging system

Caching & DeepDiff using Redis

• Cache denormalized data for posts and related items (likes, comments etc.)
• Store & update diff in each user's activity stream
• Retrieve each user's activity stream

Free text search using Solr

• Set Up Solr
• Index keywords
• Connect Python to Solr

Scraping & RPA on Selenium

• Scrape text from specified parts of the website
• Fill forms, search boxes, input fields
• Click Buttons
• Handle for "special" cases such as AngularJS websites

Working with Files

• Write HTML tables to CSV, Excel, PDFs and download on user click
• Read Excel files
• Read & write to Google Spreadsheet
• Read/scrape text from PDF files

Machine Learning

• Risk Based Triaging: High / Medium / Low
• Classification (Yes/No): Logistic Regression
• Numeric Prediction: Linear Regression
• Anomaly Detection: outliers, suspicious transaction activity
• Natural Language Processing - fuzzy name matching, classifying as people/entities, sentiment analysis

Blockchain

• Implement a blockchain to store data in decentralized way
• Access data
• Configure blockchain

UI Design

• Landing Page
• Login & Registration
• Home Page with feed of cards
• Device Size Responsive using CSS Flexgrid
• Card page
• Ability to upvote
• Ability to comment
• Ability to "save for later"
• User Page
• Search Bar
• Page Navigation
• Collection of Cards
• Tags - create, edit, delete, add to post
• Notifications
• Chat Messenger
• Modals like Product Hunt
• "View More/All" UI
• Blogpost Editor
• Blogpost Comments
• Admin Panel to customize styling elements
• Page Loader Animation on screen and on each post

Front End Javascript

• JavaScript functions to create, update, modify, stylize HTML divs
• JavaScript functions to reshape data
• AJAX to make REST API calls to fetch JSON data
• Event Handlers to handle clicks, user events

Data Visualization

• Bar Charts
• Nice Table with Pagination, Heatmap Abilities
• Calendar
• Line Charts
• Donut Charts
• Filters & User inputs - Checkboxes, Sliders, Radio Buttons, Text Inputs, Date Pickers
• Drill down
• Icons

Deploy on cloud (AWS)

• Setup security levels
• Setup users & groups for programmatic access
• Create RDS database
• Deploy Python website using Elastic Beanstalk

Formatted using: https://dillinger.io/