This is the approach I've settled on too. I'm almost finished my first backend implementation of https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld https://github.com/go

This is the approach I've settled on too. I'm almost finished my first backend implementation of https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld and now that I've implemented it once I'm very familiar with it and could very quickly implement it again. It's simple enough to be a short project, but with enough complexity to get you familiar with a wide variety of things you might care to know. One thing I like about it is you can kind of under or over engineer it as much as you want as a way to turn the dial either up or down on exactly how many different aspects of development in a certain language/framework it exposes you to.