Django Create App

This Django package customizes the startapp command to create new apps inside a directory specified by the DEFAULT_APPS_DIR setting in your settings.py. This ensures that all your Django apps are neatly organized within a designated folder structure, helping you maintain a cleaner project structure.

Features

• Modifies the startapp command to create apps inside a configurable directory (DEFAULT_APPS_DIR) in settings.py.
• Simplifies managing apps within large Django projects by keeping them inside a specific directory.
• Reduces the need to manually move apps after they are created.

Installation

To install the package, add it to your project’s requirements.txt or run the following command:

pip install django-create-app

Configuration

1. Install the django-create-app like any python packages.

   pip install django-create-app
   

2. Update settings.py

   Add DEFAULT_APPS_DIR variable inside your settings.py. This will define the directory where all the apps are to be included. If you left undeclared, "apps" will be used by default.

   # settings.py
   ...
   DEFAULT_APPS_DIR = "apps"
   ...
   

3. Now, you can use modified startapp command to create new apps inside DEFAULT_APPS_DIR directory.

Further Configuration

By Default, django-create-app adds DEFAULT_APPS_DIR at the end of the sys.path but sometime we need to add it to different index. For such case, create DEFAULT_APP_DIR_INDEX variable and assign the index at which the DEFAULT_APPS_DIR is inserted.

Example,

DEFAULT_APPS_DIR = "apps"
DEFAULT_APPS_DIR_INDEX = 0 # This causes python to look for any modules or packages inside "apps" directory first.