Code organisation

[Benjamin Melki]

Hello,

i’m building my first site with this great framework and language that are Django and Python.

I try as much as possible to favor code reuse.

On one of my model, I do some work with the instance before saving it.

Works is mostly image related: resizing image, compressing, saving thumbs, and a couple more stuff.

I will need this behavior in almost all the projects that I will building, and even some other apps in the same project will need this feature: the blog, the comments, the directory…..

In this case, where to put this code ? What do guys and gals do usually in this situation ? 

Do you just put it in a custom (non app) folder like ‘my_utilities’ ?

Advices welcome.

Thanks,

Benj

[Rafael E. Ferrero]

Maybe you find useful make your project into a reusable app look at this https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/intro/reusable-apps/

Cheers !!

Rafael E. Ferrero

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[Benj]

Yes, I didn't thought about creating a whole app for utilities, but it is indeed the way to go. Tks

[Derek]

Utilities app is the way to go - and attach ALL business logic to your models; this will save you headaches in the long run...

[Daniel Chimeno]

Hello,

It seems that if you need (blog, comments, image manipulation), are you developing a custom CMS?

Maybe you find something useful here.

https://www.djangopackages.com/grids/g/cms/

[Benjamin Melki]

Hello,

thanks for the link.

Indeed, I hesitated a long time before deciding not to use a cms. I think I would probably have used a PHP cms if I had chosen this route.

But I chose to stick with raw Django. Yes it is more work, but i’m building my first kinda cms to be reusable, with my own style and practice for my own needs, so on subsequent projects things should go really fast.

This time, and this may evolve at a later point, I prefer to stick with pure django: no need to learn CMS ways of doing things, less dependency on a new layer of code….. for my first delve in the Django world (and most generally the python world) I’m just starved to code with this extraordinary combo of python / django.

But wether to use a CMS or not for general content management is a true question.

Benj

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[Philip Southwell]

Could I recommend Mezzanine CMS as a starting point? It contains everything you need to get a django CMS off the ground with easy adaptability for custom apps you write yourself. Check it out at http://mezzanine.jupo.org

[Benjamin Melki]

This CMS really looks awesome. But I don’t think I would do it justice, if I don’t learn first the framework: Django.

I think I will really appreciate getting into CMS after learning the framework and publishing a few projects with it.

Then you can truly appreciate what the CMS can give you.

Le 24 janv. 2016 à 14:51, Philip Southwell <ph...@zoothink.com> a écrit :

Could I recommend Mezzanine CMS as a starting point? It contains everything you need to get a django CMS off the ground with easy adaptability for custom apps you write yourself. Check it out at http://mezzanine.jupo.org

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