Let’s Check Out Backend Development
Hey! So, I thought I’d turn this into a blog post and also share some personal notes on building with FastAPI from a beginner’s perspective.
Currently, I’m doing my national service. I went in as a data science guy, but after working for a while, I started feeling a bit confused and, honestly, bored. During one of our standups, I shared my thoughts about the role and mentioned that I wanted to explore other areas. The response I got was pretty supportive.
In short, I decided I wanted to get into software engineering, specifically backend development. I was lucky enough to get an opportunity to work on a new product (not started yet), focusing on the backend. The catch? I have zero backend experience, so it’s basically going to be a learn-as-I-go situation.
Since I’m proficient in Python, we thought FastAPI would be a cool choice. Although I had some experience with FastAPI—mainly building models and exposing them as API responses—I decided to learn more and really get my hands dirty. I wanted to learn backend development from scratch and understand the general flow of how things work in order to be ready for the project.
That’s when I decided to build a project called DuhDuh. I honestly don’t know why I chose that name, it just felt right (and kinda funny).
The goal of the project was to:
- Understand how FastAPI works.
- Learn how to structure backend code.
- Integrate other tools with the code.
- Handle authentication.
- And, overall, just get my hands dirty.
Looking back, I can confidently say that this project taught me more than any YouTube tutorial I found. The real learning came from encountering errors and working through them myself.
So yeah, the project is:
DuhDuh-V2 is just a simple CRUD blog with authentication😂. After building the first version, I realized I could make it better, so I went ahead and built V2 (and who knows, V3 might be coming).
Here’s the GitHub repo for the project: DuhDuh-V2 GitHub Repo
I’m planning to work on more small backend projects to keep learning and experimenting with new concepts in the field of backend, and I hope to add backend development to my skillset at the end of my national service.
