README.md

# aidaho-tinkering-club-web-app

## Overview

This is the GitLab repository prepared to illustrate the development of a (full-stack) web application with Python Tornado and a Postgresql database in the backend and React in the frontend as a multi-container Docker application. 

## Apporach

This repository contains several branches, with each branch containing a different step in the development of the application.

Use `git diff tornado-backend-stage-01:tornado-backend/blog.py react-tornado-api-stage-01:tornado-backend/blog.py` to compare individual files across branches.

### Step 1

* Starting point is the [Tornado blog demo on GitHub](https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/blob/master/demos/blog/blog.py).
* The replication of the Tornado blog demo can be found on branch `tornado-backend-stage-01`.

### Step 2

* React frontend on top of the Tornado backend.
* This can be found on branch `react-frontend-stage-01`.

### Step 3

* Tornado backend as an API for the react frontend.
* This can be found on branch `react-tornado-api-stage-01`.

#### Step 4

* (Full-stack) replication of the Tornado blog demo with react (frontend) and Tornado (backend).
* This can be found on branch `react-tornado-blog-stage-01`.