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B. LopatinDjango Standalone Appshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5632-9_9

9. Scoping and drawing boundaries

Ben Lopatin1 
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New York, NY, USA
 

In the first chapter, we discussed in brief what it means to scope a Django standalone app, including your goals in creating a standalone app, the considerations of third-party dependencies, and the job the app is expected to perform.

In this chapter, we’ll revisit these same considerations in more depth and specifically with respect to looking at a possible Django standalone app in the context of an existing codebase.

Scoping and the nature of the problem

Defining the scope of a software project is one of the first challenges in a project, and one of the most important. The scope defines ...

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