Exploring Conventions in Django

In previous chapters, we learned about the different features of Django and how you can utilize these features to build a scalable Django application. Django is considered to be opinionated; it doesn’t give a lot of flexibility to developers. Being opinionated has led to a love-hate relationship between Django and the developer community, where a lot of developers love the fact that Django has a particular way of performing certain implementations and developers do not have to think too much about how to use Django to build a web service. However, many developers don’t like Django due to the lack of flexibility and its being too rigid about how a particular code should be written.

In this chapter, we will learn about certain conventions you can follow while working with Django. You should note that this chapter contains a lot of opinionated concepts that I have learned while working on numerous Django projects and consulting for different...