Django Conventions and Best Practices

Purpose

This skill provides comprehensive Django best practices and conventions to ensure high-quality, secure, and performant Django applications. It serves as a reference guide during code reviews to verify adherence to Django standards and community best practices.

When to use this skill:

• Conducting code reviews of Django projects
• Designing Django applications and models
• Writing Django views, serializers, and forms
• Evaluating Django security and performance
• Refactoring Django codebases
• Teaching Django best practices to team members

This skill is designed to be referenced by the uncle-duke-python agent during Django code reviews.

Context

Django is a high-level Python web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. This skill documents industry-standard Django practices that emphasize: