Develop standalone Django apps to serve as the reusable building blocks for larger Django projects. This book explores best practices for publishing these apps, with special considerations for testing Django apps, and strategies for extracting existing functionality into a separate package.
This jumpstart reference is divided into four distinct and sequential sections, all containing short, engaging chapters that can be read in a modular fashion, depending on your level of experience. The first section covers the structure and scope of standalone Django apps. The second section digs into questions about pulling code out of existing projects and into new standalone apps for reuse. The third section details additional, advanced technical best practices toward making standalone apps as broadly useful as possible. The fourth and final section covers strategies for managing a published Django app.
Django Standalone Apps is the perfect resource for developers who have at least some prior experience working with Django web applications and want to simplify their deployments and share their knowledge as open source packages.
What You'll Learn

• Scope a standalone Django app project for optimum usefulness
• Extract code from existing projects to reuse
• Test a standalone app outside of your Django project
• Reuse your own code for increased delivery cadence and code quality
• Review best practices for maintaining a Django app package Who This Book Is For

Professional developers who work with Django. Deep expertise is not required or expected, but readers should have working familiarity with Django.

Devoted to best practices and strategies for developing reusable Django apps Passes on the largely undocumented lessons learned by previous developers Based on real world projects in the most popular Python web framework

Autorentext

Ben is cofounder of a web development consultancy and has been working professionally with Django for almost a decade. He has architected and led development on Django-based web applications including, custom content management systems, media platforms, and multi tenant back office solutions.
He lives in the Rochester, NY, area, and graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in Economics. Previously he managed the data and analytics services for a market research firm and was an IT strategy consultant for a global management consulting firm. His own standalone apps include Django Organizations, a long term project for managing multi user accounts in Django projects.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Defining the Scope of a Django Standalone App.- Chapter 2: Structuring Django Standalone Apps.- Chapter 3: Testing .- Chapter 4: Model Migrations.- Chapter 5: Templates.- Chapter 6: Using Static Files.- Chapter 7: Namespacing in Your App.- Chapter 8: Creating a Basic Package.- Chapter 9: Scooping and Drawing Boundaries.- Chapter 10: Separating Your App.- Chapter 11: Adding Your App Back In.- Chapter 12: Handling App Settings.- Chapter 13: Internationalization.- Chapter 14: Managing Version Compatibility.- Chapter 15: Mixed Dependency Support.- Chapter 16: Modularity.- Chapter 17: Better Packaging.- Chapter 18: Licensing.- Chapter: 19: Documenting Your Standalone App.- Chapter: 20: Additional Testing.- Chapter: 21: Automating.- Chapter 22: Databases and other backend specific considerations.- Chapter 23: Collaborating.- Chapter 24: Using App Templates.