Rocketbin – Flask Pastebin clone

rocketb.in

5 points·coppolaemilio··7 comments

Just to clarify, this is a very early project, and it needs a lot of work, this is some of the stuff that is in my TODO list:

- Responsive Web Design

- User management (login/register/etc)

- Expiration time

- Documentation on how to run your own instance of Rocketb.in

- Use https://mongolab.com/ for DB

That is what I have in my mind right now.

MongoDB for a pastebin? Really? Why not Hadoop?

And you may want to remove *.pyc files from repository. You wouldn't want somebody to think you can't use git and Python properly, would you?

Rocketbin author here, this is my first Python and Flask project, so probably you will see a lot of stuff that is not a "good practice".

I only have experience in MongoDB that is why I'm using it, probably in the future I can use something better.

I have a common `.gitignore` file for all my projects, since I am a front-end developer I never had the need to ignore *.pyc files, because I never used it before

Also I really don't care what people think about me :)

Sorry if I sound like a dick but is true, that is my first project with a "back-end" so it won't be something amazing (yet) I'm still working on it.

> I only have experience in MongoDB that is why I'm using it, probably in the future I can use something better.

It's a snippet paste application. Why use database at all? Mere flat files would be just enough. Or even SQLite, if you happen to really need data processing (although I fail to see what for in such application).

SQLite would suffice. Although I see no reason to change now.

You are right, it won't change, if someone want to use SQLite or another option (even Redis) they can fork it, this is an app for learning purposes.

I wanted to play with database with a very simple application also I only knew how to use MongoDB.

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