Chapter 2: Organizing a Project
It is Day 0. You have a project in hand. You are fired up and ready to build a new web application. Ideas are swirling in your head, and your fingers are itching to start punching the keyboard. Time to sit down and start coding!
Or is it? It is tempting to start building an application as soon as the ideas about what we want to build begin to formulate in our heads. Before doing that, we should think about setting ourselves up for success. Having a solid foundation for the building will make the process much easier, reduce bugs, and result in a cleaner application.
The three foundations for beginning any Python web application project are as follows:
- Your IDE/coding editor
- An environment for running your development application
- A project application structure
These three elements take into account a lot of personal tastes. There are so many good tools and approaches. There is no way a single book could cover them all. If...
