Django Styleguide

Django styleguide used in HackSoft projects.

Expect often updates as we discuss & decide upon different things.

Overview

In Django, business logic should live in:

• Model properties (with some exceptions).
• Model clean method for additional validations (with some exceptions).
• Services - functions, that take care of code written to the database.
• Selectors - functions, that take care of code taken from the database.

In Django, business logic should not live in:

• APIs and Views.
• Serializers and Forms.
• Form tags.
• Model save method.

Model properties vs selectors:

• If the model property spans multiple relations, it should better be a selector.
• If a model property, added to some list API, will cause N + 1 problem that cannot be easily solved with select_related, it should better be a selector.