Re:Show HN: Django and React SaaS boilerplate tutorial
by WD-42 on Thursday December 24, 2020 @12:15PM
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There was a story on HN recently about a security breach on some website because of a hand written auth scheme. I was surprised with how many people just thought it was normal to hand roll auth stuff. I think it comes mostly from the server side JS crew but it is definitely disturbing the amount of wheels being reinvented out there
I’m working on a simple internal enterprise app for managing document workflow right now. It should just be a basic CRUD application maintained by 2-3 devs at most. Because of how it’s architected (extreme normalization on the backend, Vue used for every single simple component on the front end), we have a team of 15 devs on the project.
I had to update the options in a simple select drop-down menu last week. It took me a full day and modifying six files to get it right. 10 years ago it would have been a 20 minute task and two files.
It’s sickening because the entire team thinks this is normal.