Question

Any “best practice” or “recommended” project layouts for a django project in eclipse?

In my eclipse it looks like this:

project name
-src
--project name
---__init__.py
---manage.py
---settings.py
---urls.py
---apps
----app1
-----__init__.py
-----forms.py
-----urls.py
-----views.py
-----templates
------app1
-------index.html

I’m not sure how I like this layout, especially the repetition of the app name in the templates folder. I think I did it that way to make my url configs behave, but I’m new to django so that could be another place for improvement.

Answer 1

you know you can create a django project without the src folder in eclipse which i think will be much cleaner; to do this when you want to create a new Django project the widget that ask for the name of the project in the bottom you can disable Create default “scr” … .

And i don’t think it’s a good idea to put all Django application like you did you can put related application in the some folder but not all of them , and for the template i think you have the choice to put one template directory in the some level as settings.py where you can have the same structure as your apps or to put a template directory in each application but i prefer the first one like this:

project_name
  |
  | --- manage.py
  |
  | --- settings.py
  |
  | --- template
          |
          | -- index.html
          |
          | -- base.html
          |
          | -- 404.html
          | 
          | -- conection_app
          |         | 
                    | -- login.html
  |
  |
  | --- connection_app
          |
          | -- login
                 |
                 | -- view.py
  |
  |
  | --- finance_app 
  |