Just one point of clarity - the intention is clearly for apps to be small and focused and "do one thing well". Like much of Python, of course, you as a developer can abuse this to your heart's content and create humugenous and unwieldy code bases. (Pinax, incidentally, is not an "app", but a bundled collection of apps that aim to make it easier to start developing certain types of sites.)
On Jan 8, 3:50 pm, Mike Ramirez <gufym...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday, January 08, 2011 02:07:22 am Ondřej Mirtes wrote: > > > Thank you all for your responses. > > > I have one more question - what is the purpose of "apps" in > > "projects" (when I create new app in a project via manage.py > > startapp)? Are they something like sections of a web (articles, forum, > > user administration?) or are they rather something like modules, > > reusable across projects? How big should be an app? > > They are really both, see django-registration, djangobb, pinax, and many other > django-apps (search google code and github). > > > How should I solve typical scenario when my site consists of a small > > frontend presentation and a complex API service? > > This is really a question best left upto you to answer. Looking at existing > apps, some are small providing specific functionality (django-email- > notifiation iirc is another), others really huge providing a whole slew of > things (see djangobb and pinax). Others have made apps that just hold template > tags, to one app for the whole site (which most new django developers do). > > My suggestion to you is to build it the way that makes it easy to maintain the > site, for you and developers after you. If some functionality that you come up > with can be of use to others, then it's worthwhile to make it it's own app and > release it into the wild via your fav license. > > Mike > > -- > Death comes on every passing breeze, > He lurks in every flower; > Each season has its own disease, > Its peril -- every hour. > --Reginald Heber -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
