New apps created are located in the project root, not inside the project slug

What happened?

When creating a new app using python manage.py startapp <name-of-the-app>, the application is created within the project root

What should’ve happened instead?

The application should be created within the project slug, as indicated here

Steps to reproduce

• Create a bare new application using cookiecutter-django
• Install all requirements into your virtualenvironment using pip install -r requirements/local.txt
• Try to create a new app (with the name foo, for instance) using python manage.py startapp foo

[luzfcb]

@JCepedaVillamayor

What happened? When creating a new app using python manage.py startapp <name-of-the-app>, the application is created within the project root

this is the expected behavior, because cookiecutter-django does not change the way that django startapp works. ( I tried doing this in another branch, but, I did not like having to rewrite almost everything to include this relatively simple logic. the django startapp, apparently, was not projected to be extended 😢 )

you’ll have to fix this manually:

1 - create the <name-of-the-app> app with python manage.py startapp 2 - move <name-of-the-app> directory to <project_slug> directory 3 - edit <project_slug>/<name-of-the-app>/apps.py and change name = "<name-of-the-app>" to name = "<project_slug>.<name-of-the-app>" 4 - add "<project_slug>.<name-of-the-app>.apps.<NameOfTheAppConfigClass>", on your LOCAL_APPS on config/settings/base.py

if that is enough to answer the question. please close this issue. We gladly accept code and documentation contributions.

[changeling]

This would seem to be a subject/issue worthy of documentation, perhaps inclusion in the startapp work flow. I see manual fixes presented as a reply to an issue, but surely this is worth addressing to the wider audience who may not come into the issues for a solution? Is this just me?