Organizing application features into modules

As before, we will use an example to help explain the concepts.

Odoo's inheritance features provide an effective extensibility mechanism. They allow you to extend existing third-party apps without changing them directly. This composability also enables a module-oriented development pattern, where large apps can be split into smaller features, rich enough to stand on their own.

This can be helpful to limit complexity, both at the technical level and the user experience level. From a technical perspective, splitting a large problem into smaller parts makes it easier to solve and is friendlier to  incremental feature development. From the user experience perspective, we can choose to activate only ...

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