Createapp scaffolds?

Using Django Getting Started
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Is there a way to do startapp command(maybe 3rd party) so there will be urls.py and crud-urlpatterns, cet_absolute_url and maybe some other stuff?

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How would you do that in the absence of the models and views?

(Also, take a look at cookiecutter and cookiecutter-django to see what has been done in that area.)

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Maybe it is more like a startmodel command I am looking for.
I am also an opinionated use of the generec cbv could do it

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The admin already does it by building its URLs from the ModelAdmin classes.

You could effectively do this by doing your own URL decoding and dispatch - but then youā€™re just recreating what Django already provides. (e.g. something along the lines of re_path('.*', my_custom_dispatcher))

A generic CBV canā€™t do it, because it doesnā€™t get instantiated until after a URL has been received and resolved, directing it to the view.

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I donā€™t think I am explaining myself properly. :slight_smile:

I was thinking of doing a management command like ā€œdjango-admin createscaffoldapp appname modelname fieldnameā€ for example ā€œdjango-admin createscaffoldapp books Book titleā€

Then (I think) django would be able to:

  • register the app in setting
  • make the _ _ str _ _ and get_absolute_url in the model
  • make the subdir in the templates dir
  • create the book_list.html with demo of a for book in books: {{book.title}}
  • create the book_detail.html
  • create the four crud views (generic)

ā€¦ I think? :innocent:
I know the model and app will need all the rest of the fields and content. But the above is even for me as a beginner starting to be repetitive (yet time consuming).

I do realize that some of the process like naming the specific way the urlpattern paths are designed have to be chosen for me, but as a beginner I am fully okay with that. Maybe there is a corporate standard or way most people would agree it would be okay. My guess is something like (or whatever is more agreed upon by pros):

  • path(ā€˜add/ā€™, views.add, name=ā€˜addā€™),
  • path(ā€˜edit/int:id/ā€™, views.edit, name=ā€˜editā€™),
  • path(ā€˜delete/int:id/ā€™, views.delete, name=ā€˜deleteā€™),
  • path(ā€˜insert/ā€™, views.insert, name=ā€˜insertā€™),
  • path(ā€˜update/int:id/ā€™, views.update, name=ā€˜updateā€™),

I know about cookie-cutter, but I dont want to scaffold the whole project, only the individual app.

I know this mostly applies the beginners like me or maybe intermediate users (in a hurry), but I think Django could expand the project-start-supporting commands a bit more than they are right now.

Does this even make sense if you are making professional projects? (which I am not, not that anyone doubted this :smiley: )

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The misinterpretation mistake was mine. :slightly_smiling_face:

You can create a cookiecutter for just an app.

I wasnā€™t suggesting to use django-cookiecutter, just to point out that there is a framework available for building what you describe.

A cookiecutter, at its most fundamental layer, creates a directory and a set of files while substituting text. Itā€™s quite practical to build what you describe using it.

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Edit: forget this: Could you or someone else point me in the right direction? I only find cookiecutter project stuff

Edit: I think I found itā€¦ https://cookiecutter.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.2/first_steps.html

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Oh wait maybe someone has already built this ā€œapp starterā€?

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Also, if you want some ideas, see GitHub - wildfish/cookiecutter-django-crud: A cookiecutter template to create a Django app around a model with CRUD views using django-vanilla-views, a floppyforms ModelForm and WebTest tests using model mommy. and GitHub - smajda/cookiecutter-django-crud-app: A Django app template that sets up initial Create, List, Detail, and Update generic views, forms, urls, templates, and tests.

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This looks like it (quick look) is exactly what I was thinking of. :+1:

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ā€¦ But cookiecutter keeps throwing errorsā€¦ :thinking:
(cant share error msg right now. On the phone)

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error: invalid path '{{cookiecutter.app_name}}/templates/{{cookiecutter.app_name}}/{{cookiecutter.model_name|lower}}_confirm_delete.html'
fatal: unable to checkout working tree
warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.
You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'
and retry with 'git restore --source=HEAD :/'
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git status

fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

which is weird as I am trying to clone the cookiecutter from my github fork of the original repo

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I just watched a video of Django-Unicorn and it has a management command like ā€œdjango-admin startunicorn Appname TemplateNameā€ which does almost what I originally imagined without the need for CookieCutter.
How do I go and make one of those?