Django Standalone Apps

This book shows developers how to build standalone Django apps that act as reusable building blocks for larger Django projects. It covers best practices for publishing such apps, gives particular attention to testing them, and offers strategies for extracting existing functionality into a separate package.

The material is organised into four sequential sections made up of short chapters, which can be read in any order depending on the reader's experience. The first section deals with the structure and scope of standalone apps. The second looks at how to pull code out of existing projects and turn it into new apps that can be reused. The third goes into more advanced technical practices that make standalone apps useful in as many settings as possible. The fourth covers how to manage an app once it has been published.

It is written for professional developers who work with Django. Deep expertise is not expected, but readers should be familiar with building Django web applications. It suits those who want to simplify their deployments and share their knowledge as open source packages.