Django Standalone Apps

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. 

You will:

• •  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

About the Author

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.