Structuring a Django REST Framework API Project: How Do I Go About It?

This is my first technical blog post. More will follow on Django, architecture, and things I learned the hard way. Discussion is very welcome. A few weeks ago, a senior Django developer (more experienced than me 😅) joined a project I had been building solo. After reviewing the codebase, he sent me this message (translated and paraphrased from French): "There are quite a few things that are not well finished. Some deficiencies. But there are also some very beautiful things that allowed me to move fast." That last sentence is why I told myself: why not start writing, both to preserve what worked and to connect with others? So here I am. 👋 Properly structuring a project, especially a large one, is crucial. It's about making decisions early that let you, and others, navigate confidently, add features safely, and hand the project off without needing to be called back every five minutes. Let's get into it. 🚀 The Problem With Django's Default Layout When you run django-admin startproject b