I have been working hard lately to figure out as many of the pieces of
django as possible, and it occurs to me that the python manage.py
startapp script just isn't good enough.
Here's the problem, as I see it:
- The startapp script doesn't complete about 80% of the actions
necessary to make a basic app
- There are eight files (!) that need to be completed/edited for an
app to work (admin.py, forms.py, views.py, models.py, index.html,
urls.py needs an include, appname/urls.py needs to be made,
settings.py needs the app turned on)
- Creating a new app is therefore crazy complicated.
So, the solution. A script should be written that does the following:
- Run the basic startapp process
- Add the app to the settings.py file
- Create urls.py in the app folder, and put an include in the
default urls.py for that file
- Create a template folder and put a basic template for it in that
folder (perhaps based on a template template)
- This template can be filled into the views.py file as a
render_to_response.
- Create an empty file called forms.py, and fill it in with some
standard stuff
- Add some standard stuff to the views.py and models.py files as
well
- Create the admin.py file, and put it in the app folder
All of that could be done interactively, of course, so you don't have
to create a forms.py file, if you don't want, and you don't have to
use the template stuff, if you don't want. Etc.
As a newbie, learning about eight different files, and how to edit
each of them from scratch is pretty challenging. This might lower the
curve.
Thoughts? Does this already exist?
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