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Django: An Unofficial Opinionated FAQ

3 points by spapas82 8y ago

spapas82 8y ago
A bunch of my own opinions to the FAQ: - Should I use Flask or Django? - Agreed, Django - Should I split my code up into multiple apps? - I think it's better if you split your code into different apps from the beginning especially if its about different things that don't have a heavy relations. For example I usually put my user, profile, preferences etc things in a different app. - Should I use Django’s default template language (DTL) or something else? - Agreed, DTL - DTL doesn’t do what I want - should I use something else like Jinja2? - Agreed, use DTL and mix a bunch of template tags for things that can't be implemented with only the DTL - Should I use Gunicorn or uWSGI to run Django? - Agreed, definitely use gunicorn unless you really know what you are doing. uWSGI is a PITA to setup and has various problems with security, when reloading it etc - Where should I deploy my app? - No opinion I mainly deploy to internal (Centos) servers - What should I use to serve my static files? - Whitenoise is a good solution for some projects but if you are going to put your app behind a reverse proxy (i.e nginx) then why not just serve your static files from there directly ? - I’m trying to get the admin to do X… - Agreed, admin is for internal users / operators; CBV is excellent. Also if you want something more configurable try my django generic scaffold package: https://github.com/spapas/django-generic-scaffold/ https://github.com/spapas/django-generic-scaffold/ - What database should I use? - Agreed, Postgres all the way; don't forget to take a look at the django-postgresql specific models https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/contrib/postgres/fields/ https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/contrib/postgres/f... - How should I split my settings file between production / development? - I disagree; I use the common pattern with a settings package and dev/uat/prod modules. Using env vars is not always feasible since python is much more expressive than a string (think when you need to setup a setting with a dict) - Should I use a custom User model? - Agreed; follow the docs if you start from scratch but be careful if you have a project with live migrations

3 points by spapas82 8y ago

A bunch of my own opinions to the FAQ: - Should I use Flask or Django? - Agreed, Django - Should I split my code up into multiple apps? - I think it's better if you split your code into different apps from the beginning especially if its about different things that don't have a heavy relations. For example I usually put my user, profile, preferences etc things in a different app. - Should I use Django’s default template language (DTL) or something else? - Agreed, DTL - DTL doesn’t do what I want - should I use something else like Jinja2? - Agreed, use DTL and mix a bunch of template tags for things that can't be implemented with only the DTL - Should I use Gunicorn or uWSGI to run Django? - Agreed, definitely use gunicorn unless you really know what you are doing. uWSGI is a PITA to setup and has various problems with security, when reloading it etc - Where should I deploy my app? - No opinion I mainly deploy to internal (Centos) servers - What should I use to serve my static files? - Whitenoise is a good solution for some projects but if you are going to put your app behind a reverse proxy (i.e nginx) then why not just serve your static files from there directly ? - I’m trying to get the admin to do X… - Agreed, admin is for internal users / operators; CBV is excellent. Also if you want something more configurable try my django generic scaffold package: https://github.com/spapas/django-generic-scaffold/ https://github.com/spapas/django-generic-scaffold/ - What database should I use? - Agreed, Postgres all the way; don't forget to take a look at the django-postgresql specific models https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/contrib/postgres/fields/ https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/contrib/postgres/f... - How should I split my settings file between production / development? - I disagree; I use the common pattern with a settings package and dev/uat/prod modules. Using env vars is not always feasible since python is much more expressive than a string (think when you need to setup a setting with a dict) - Should I use a custom User model? - Agreed; follow the docs if you start from scratch but be careful if you have a project with live migrations