Django Apps extendability - How to make your django apps easily extendable?

Question

What are your best practises for making your django application easily extendable for other developers?

What are your approaches for enabling other to overwrite your

• views
• forms
• templates
• models
• classes

In a way that enables a healthy environment for extensions to work well together?

Answer 1

Basically, what he says. But class based views in Django 1.3 will change this pretty much. See Alex Gaynor's talk for an in-depth analysis of what class based views will bring to reusable apps.

Answer 2

1. use signals and dispatchers

in your app create files.. -litseners.py -signals.py and then implement signals for your models and forms (views not so much)

1. use the django plugins pattern

2. ducktyping for your classes