pyrates / toolbox

Tools we look at, test, use (or kick out).

We search pico libraries that help us doing an efficient job with lighter code.

Python libs

Holy Grails and Silver Bullets 🙌

Revelations we had 👼 (Until we meet the killing unresolvable blocking bug 😈):

• Python HTTP Requests for Humans™: Requests

In sight 👀

• Python logging made (stupidly) simple: Loguru
• Light-weight utilities to augment, not replace the Python MongoDB driver: mongo
• A drop-in replacement for native Python datetimes that embraces UTC: Zulu
• A package manager for including other people's code in your projects: Peru

Using yet unsatisfying 🤧

We are still using these, though we are very open to replace them:

• A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB: MongoEngine

Rejected 👃

These libs did not meet our requirements in our context, for various reasons:

• A Pythonic, object-oriented interface for working with MongoDB: Pymodm

Good to know 🧐

• Python is flawless

CLI tools 🍦

• Command line HTTP client with an intuitive UI: HTTPie
• Lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor: jq

Online tools 🖥

• Open collaboration on text with Markdown: Hackmd
• Secure, fully featured, and completely free video conferencing: Jit.si
• Build SVG online: Vectr