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Python

Posted by Victor Gavojdea
Victor Gavojdea
11,796 Points

Django Project package vs app

When you create a project you get a directory with the same name as your project. What is the difference between this folder and an app folder?

I understand that the contents are different, but what would stop you from treating this project folder as an app?

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points

There are many way to configure a Django project. It may help to think of the topmost level directory as the repository level and the lower project directory as the project configuration area.

It is certainly possible to put all development within the lower project directory. However, doing this blurs the separation of apps (which may be many) and the project.

Putting the apps in their own separate peer directory to the lower project directory allows for cleaner packaging of individual apps for sharing and eases adding and removes apps without affecting other apps or muddying the project specific configuration files.

This is also the customary practice amount Django developers.

Victor Gavojdea
Victor Gavojdea
11,796 Points

Thank you for this. I couldn't find a clear answer anywhere.