The Making of Cowsay-Django

There are a lot of ways to structure a Django project. My goal here is to find a way that involves the least amount of manual reorganization.

Create Project

hatch new cowsay-django

Add Stuff

...

hatch shell

Create Test Django Site

django-admin startproject mycowsay .

This creates the project in the current directory, else you will get a parent directory with the same name. Undesirable.

Create Django App

cd src/cowsay_django

../../manage.py startapp cowsayer

Can't use cowsay because it conflicts with existing Python module.

Modify apps.py

name = 'cowsay_django.cowsayer'

cd ../..

Make and Apply Migrations

./manage.py makemigrations
./manage.py migrate

Make Template Tags

Restart the server!

Run Server

./manage.py runserver