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I created my own private accounting application in Perl_/mod_perl_ in
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2007, as part of my personal website. The first revision was made
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using Perl/Mojolicious_ in 2019, with the aim of making it
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mobile-friendly using Bootstrap_, and with modern back-end and
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front-end technologies such as jQuery.
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The second revision was done in Python_/Django_ in 2020, as I was
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looking to change my career from PHP_/Laravel_ to Python, but lacked
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experience with large Python projects. I needed something in my
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portfolio and decided to work on the somewhat outdated Mojolicious
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project.
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Despite having no prior experience with Django, I spent two months
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working late nights to create the `Mia! Accounting Django`_
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application. It took me another 1.5 months to make it an independent
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module, which I later released as an open source project on PyPI.
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The application worked nicely for my household bookkeeping for two
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years. However, new demands arose over time, especially with tracking
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payables and receivables. This was critical `during the pandemic`_ as
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more payments were made online with credit cards.
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The biggest issue I encountered was with
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`Django's MTV architectural pattern`_. Django takes over the control
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flow. I had to override several parts of the `class-based views`_ for
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different but yet simple control flow logic. In the end, it became
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very difficult to track whether things went wrong because I overrode
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something or because it just wouldn't work with the basic assumption
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of the class-based views. By the time I realized it, it was too late
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for me to drop Django's MTV and rewrite everything from class-based
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views to function-based views.
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Therefore, I decided to turn to microframeworks_ like Flask_. After
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working with modularized Flask and FastAPI_ applications for two
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years, I returned to the project and wrote its third revision using
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Flask in 2023.
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.. _Perl: https://www.perl.org
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.. _mod_perl: https://perl.apache.org
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.. _Mojolicious: https://mojolicious.org
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.. _Bootstrap: https://getbootstrap.com
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.. _jQuery: https://jquery.com
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.. _Python: https://www.python.org
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.. _Django: https://www.djangoproject.com
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.. _PHP: https://www.php.net
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.. _Laravel: https://laravel.com
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.. _Mia! Accounting Django: https://github.com/imacat/mia-accounting-django
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.. _during the pandemic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic
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.. _FastAPI: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com
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.. _Django's MTV architectural pattern: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/general/#django-appears-to-be-a-mvc-framework-but-you-call-the-controller-the-view-and-the-view-the-template-how-come-you-don-t-use-the-standard-names
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.. _class-based views: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/topics/class-based-views/
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.. _microframeworks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microframework
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.. _Flask: https://flask.palletsprojects.com
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