How to structure the Django Project?

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Django’s Command Line Interface (CLI) is a powerful tool for generating well-structured Django projects. However, maintaining that clean structure can become challenging as we create multiple apps, models, views, and routes. In this article, we’ll unveil our preferred method for organizing Django projects. This approach has proven invaluable in creating and sustaining an organized and understandable directory structure, even as our Django project evolves and scales.

The Default Structure

project/
|-- app/
| |-- migrations/
| | |-- __init__.py
| |-- __init__.py
| |-- admin.py
| |-- apps.py
| |-- models.py
| |-- tests.py
| |-- views.py
|-- project/
| |-- __init__.py
| |-- settings.py
| |-- urls.py
| |-- asgi.py
| |-- wsgi.py
|-- manage.py
|-- requirements.txt

When we create an app in Django, a folder is made with the name of the app, and typically, it consists of a migrations folder and several files to configure the admin, models, tests, and views.

Django Directory Structure on Kuldeep Pisda

How to structure the Django Project?

The Default Structure#

The Default Structure