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espenhogbakk
espenhogbakk

Reputation: 11728

Any benefits of turning libraries for Django into an App?

When developing some functionality for use with django. In this case a middleware and some other utils like a decorator. Is there any upside of making it into a Django App. The library has no models, so there is no point in a models.py (which you need to make django see it as an app), or putting into INSTALLED_APPS. But I see people doing it anyway, what are the benefits?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 147

Answers (3)

fest
fest

Reputation: 1635

IMO it's handy to instantly see the list of used apps/libraries- if you miss anything, you can just pip install or easy_install it in the blink of an eye.

Upvotes: 0

Belmin Fernandez
Belmin Fernandez

Reputation: 8647

In my opinion, there is no benefits for middleware and decorators. My rule of thumb: If it has a model and/or views, I'll make it an app..

Even for custom template tags I chose to make it an egg and import it into the apps that will be using it.

Good question.

Upvotes: 1

Benjamin Wohlwend
Benjamin Wohlwend

Reputation: 31858

You'll have to make it an app if you want to provide templates, template tags or filters with your library. Otherwise, Django won't pick them up.

Upvotes: 2

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