Django app vs project

Hi Pranjal,

Generally speaking, a Django Project is made up of apps. A Django project is a complete... project built in Django. It's a bit confusing, because people often talk about a whole project as being an app, which is certainly true, but Django uses a different naming convention. Maybe an example will help.

I'm currently working on a project built in Django, commutepop.com. My project has several apps that I've built:

• accounts (for handling users)
• agencies (for handling public transit agencies)
• dashboards (for handling users' dashboards and alerts)

I also have several third party apps installed in my project:

• All the django core apps like django.contrib.admin
• django-extensions (has some nice features for development)
• django-hijack (allows me to sign in as any user - very helpful for debugging something a user has reported)

Essentially, all the code for my project is organized into separate apps. This allows me to namespace things like urls (for example, I might link to {% url 'accounts:login' %}), templates, tests, etc. In theory, I could also turn my apps into reusable ones that other people could plug into their projects (maybe I make an awesome user account system).

Hope that helps clarify. Let me know if you have any other questions!

Cheers

-Greg