Django Styleguide MCP Server

# Django Styleguide > 👀 **Need help with your Django project?** [HackSoft is here for you](https://www.hacksoft.io/solutions/django?utm_source=django-styleguide&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=Django-Campaign). Reach out at `consulting@hacksoft.io`  **Table of contents:** <!-- toc --> - [How to ask a question or propose something?](#how-to-ask-a-question-or-propose-something) - [What is this?](#what-is-this) - [How to use it?](#how-to-use-it) - [Overview](#overview) - [Why not?](#why-not) - [Cookie Cutter](#cookie-cutter) - [Models](#models) - [Base model](#base-model) - [Validation - `clean` and `full_clean`](#validation---clean-and-full_clean) - [Validation - constraints](#validation---constraints) - [Properties](#properties) - [Methods](#methods) - [Testing](#testing) - [Services](#services) - [Example - function-based service](#example---function-based-service) - [Example - class-based service](#example---class-based-service) - [Naming convention](#naming-convention) - [Modules](#modules) - [Selectors](#selectors) - [Testing](#testing-1) - [APIs & Serializers](#apis--serializers) - [Naming convention](#naming-convention-1) - [Class-based vs. Function-based](#class-based-vs-function-based) - [List APIs](#list-apis) - [Plain](#plain) - [Filters + Pagination](#filters--pagination) - [Detail API](#detail-api) - [Create API](#create-api) - [Update API](#update-api) - [Fetching objects](#fetching-objects) - [Nested serializers](#nested-serializers) - [Advanced serialization](#advanced-serialization) - [Urls](#urls) - [Settings](#settings) - [Prefixing environment variables with `DJANGO_`](#prefixing-environment-variables-with-django_) - [Integrations](#integrations) - [Reading from `.env`](#reading-from-env) - [Errors & Exception Handling](#errors--exception-handling) - [How exception handling works (in the context of DRF)](#how-exception-handling-works-in-the-context-of-drf) - [DRF's `ValidationError`](#drfs-validationerror) - [Django's `ValidationError`](#djangos-validationerror) - [Describe how your API errors are going to look like.](#describe-how-your-api-errors-are-going-to-look-like) - [Know how to change the default exception handling behavior.](#know-how-to-change-the-default-exception-handling-behavior) - [Approach 1 - Use DRF's default exceptions, with very little modifications.](#approach-1---use-drfs-default-exceptions-with-very-little-modifications) - [Approach 2 - HackSoft's proposed way](#approach-2---hacksofts-proposed-way) - [More ideas](#more-ideas) - [Testing](#testing-2) - [Overview](#overview-1) - [Naming conventions](#naming-conventions) - [Factories](#factories) - [Celery](#celery) - [The basics](#the-basics) - [Error handling](#error-handling) - [Configuration](#configuration) - [Structure](#structure) - [Periodic Tasks](#periodic-tasks) - [Beyond](#beyond) - [Cookbook](#cookbook) - [Handling updates with a service](#handling-updates-with-a-service) - [DX (Developer Experience)](#dx-developer-experience) - [`mypy` / type annotations](#mypy--type-annotations) - [MCP Documentation Server](#mcp-documentation-server) - [Setting up MCP Documentation Server](#setting-up-mcp-documentation-server) - [Django Styleguide in the Wild](#django-styleguide-in-the-wild) - [Additional resources / Alternatives](#additional-resources--alternatives) - [Inspiration](#inspiration) <!-- tocstop -->