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by detaro 3134 days ago
IMHO, if you used the space you waste on the "clickbait" for an explanation of what a user might learn when they

Before we get stuck into creating a new endpoint I’d recommend you take a look through the code we generated above to familiarize yourself with some of the components of Arrested.

you'd have a better introduction article. I'm not going to install cookiecutter and run through the the commands just to get context necessary to understand your first introductory article. Is it really that complicated to set up that you need cookiecutter?

E.g. it takes until after that point that you get to "Btw, that set up a database as a datastore", which is a fairly important part of the equation.

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Hi detaro.

Thanks for the reply. I can't disagree with your points. I should be clearer about my usage of the cookiecutter template right from the start over my poor attempts at being funny :D

I'll have a think about re-shuffling the content.

Thanks again