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Why Django static and media folders aren't pre-configured?

I was presenting a Django demonstration to my brother and he asked me the following question(s): "Why Django static and media folders aren't pre-configured? It's purpose aren't to be a convention over configuration framework? Why I am supposed to configure these things every time I start a Django project?"

I couldn't answer to him. Does anyone can?

P.S: I don't mean to compare Django with other frameworks. I'm just trying to understand why these design decisions were made;

Solution

  • Django is very definitely not a convention over configuration framework. Your brother is perhaps thinking of Rails, which does follow that principle - but Django follows the Python principle of "explicit is better than implicit".