[funkydata]

If you try to keep everything in one app, you'll have gigantic views.py, models.py, etc.

Nobody wants to work with those. Also, a simple typo in those files can bring your whole system down and can make it hard to debug.

Apps, are a cheap (EXCEPT when you HAVE TO [but really, do you? Really?] move models between apps) way to keep YOU sane.

[cjohnson318]

Right, no one wants to work on a 10k line view.py file. However, if you put everything into its own app, like I did, then you run into circular dependencies as your project gets closer to feature complete. So, the answer is somewhere in the middle. At the moment, I have about 20 apps, with 1 to 4 models per app, and 20% of all that is highly interdependent. I should have put the big, highly interdependent pieces in one app, and have the less connected pieces in separate, bare-bones crud-apps.