How this project works
Rivermouth Dispatch is an original teaching blog in twelve complete snapshots. Clone once and run any numbered folder without rebuilding earlier stages.
The path starts with FastAPI and routing, adds Jinja2 and Pico, then introduces isolated Postgres databases. Later parts add sessions, media, ownership, pagination, search, reset tokens, and Render deploy notes.
Snapshots 4–12 seed ada@example.com and grace@example.com with password123.
Local Postgres runs through Docker Compose on host port 5435 with databases rivermouth_01–rivermouth_12.
Parts in order
Work through the parts in sequence. Each lesson explains the ideas, then points you to a runnable GitHub snapshot.