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Django Design Patterns and Best Practices

Django Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Ravindran
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Django Design Patterns and Best Practices

Django Design Patterns and Best Practices

4.7 (7)
By: Ravindran

Overview of this book

If you want to learn how best to utilize commonly found patterns and learn best practices in developing applications with Django, this is the book for you. This book, like Django itself, is accessible to amateur and professional developers alike and assumes little in the way of prior experience. Although written for Python 3, the majority of the code in this book works in Python 2 or can be easily translated.
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Chapter 8. Dealing with Legacy Code

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • Reading a Django code base
  • Discovering relevant documentation
  • Incremental changes versus full rewrites
  • Writing tests before changing code
  • Legacy database integration

It sounds exciting when you are asked to join a project. Powerful new tools and cutting-edge technologies might await you. However, quite often, you are asked to work with an existing, possibly ancient, codebase.

To be fair, Django has not been around for that long. However, projects written for older versions of Django are sufficiently different to cause concern. Sometimes, having the entire source code and documentation might not be enough.

If you are asked to recreate the environment, then you might need to fumble with the OS configuration, database settings, and running services locally or on the network. There are so many pieces to this puzzle that you might wonder how and where to start.

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