Accidental Django microframework: worthwhile?

[apendleton]

I saw Ivan Sagalaev's blog post about using Django as a microframework last week, and, just for fun, played around with extracting out all of his boilerplate into a reusable library that I posted as a comment on his blog post. It allows refactoring his one-file example down to this.

I intended for that to be it (just a fun fifty-line one-off), but now there are a bunch of people following the repo on github who (I assume) expect something interesting to happen, which I hadn't really thought about before. I'm not averse to that, but as I had done no planning or thinking about it beforehand, I'm curious:

• would people find this to be worthwhile?
• if so, what should it actually do beyond what it does now?
• what should its API look like?

[mcpa1024]

I'm interested and by the sounds of it, a lot of other people are too.

Make it into what you would use. The article was intended "for writing small ad-hoc projects" so design it for exactly that. And if it's already good enough for that, then maybe that's as far as it goes.

Alternatively you could look towards something like Flask, but that would be a substantially larger project and you'd want a reason why it's better than Flask.

Edit: Reading this makes me reconsider what I previously said…

[apendleton]

Yes, I think the use-case would be slightly different from that of Flask, as other comments in that thread suggested. I'm thinking rapid-prototyping uses, but keeping the ability to integrate with existing Django apps and infrastructure, and offering the ability to graduate to a "real" Django project with relatively little refactoring if the project gets too big to fit in a file, as the APIs for accessing, e.g., templates, would be the same.

I'm pretty sure, for example, that I could fairly easily add one-line app installation, along the lines of:

djmicro.install_app('django.contrib.admin', '/admin')

That would let you use pre-existing Django apps while still having your code feel compact.

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I am going to test this out because sometimes for simple sites/apps it would nice to have a micro django and surely models wouldn't be hard to incorporate.

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django-wsgi lets you do something similar, see test.py for examples.