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Whether you're new to Django or you've been using it or years, chances are at some point you've given thought to writing a standalone app.

What is a standalone app? It's a Django app just like you use everyday that can imported into any Django project, for you or other developers.

This is the first guide written specifically for writing standalone apps.

Strategies for extracting an app from an existing project into a standalone app
Handling database migrations outside of a Django project, including swappable fields (even in Django 1.4 with South)
Testing apps outside of a Django project
Managing releases, privately and published on PyPI
How to support multiple version of Django - and Python, too
And more!

The book is generally Django version agnostic, written with Django 1.9 as the default version, with considerations back to Django 1.4.

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