Django project domains

I'm trying to figure 1) if Django can do these things and 2) if it can, should I? I'm thinking it is easier to manage just 1 project vs multiple, but I don't know exactly what Django is capable of yet...

If I have my main application at example.com and say I begin a blog about the application at blog.example.com. Can I use one Django project for that or do I need to have 2 Django projects. One to handle example.com and the other to handle blog.example.com?

Note: I will be using DRF in this project and I don't know if that makes a difference?

The answer is Yes, In Django you can handle both example.com and blog.example.com within a single project setup and let me remind you about one of the greate feature that django provides us is in one project you can have multiple apps like you have right now.

So here is how you can achieve it in a single Django project:

  1. You can create a separate Django app within the same project specifically for the blog. This keeps the logic modular and allows you to handle different features (like the main app and the blog app) separately.
  2. Use Django’s middleware and URL configurations to handle subdomains. Libraries like django-subdomains can simplify routing traffic between example.com and blog.example.com, so your blog app can respond to blog.example.com and the main app to example.com.

You have to consider few more things:

  1. While a single project can simplify deployment and shared resources, it can also make the codebase more complex over time. If the blog grows or requires very different configurations, separating projects could provide more flexibility.
  2. You need to ensure unique namespaces for each app’s URLs to avoid conflicts and keep things organized. And yes ofcourse you can create bunch of url files and then import it if you want a clean and organized code
  3. In a single project setup, both applications will typically share the same database, which can simplify data access but may require careful schema management if the apps’ data needs diverge.

For most projects, handling a blog within the main Django project works well and keeps things streamlined. If you think a little deeper about how big your application can be or how many features you are adding to this application, then you can decide correctly whether it is right or wrong to make many applications in one project, or you can also divide them into different projects.

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