How do I create a migration when creating a Django app? #817

abe-101 · 2024-10-15T23:02:44Z

abe-101
Oct 15, 2024

I'm at a loss as to how i should go about creating a migration for Django app that i generated from this template?

Great question. I've had this issue while trying to contribute to reusable Django apps, it's a real problem.

I thought the answer would be simpler, but while trying it out, I found several issues with the current setup. Basically, you need to:

Add a manage.py at the root of your project. This can be taken from the standard django-admin startproject and pointing the default setting file to the test settings: os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "tests.settings") at the beginning of main() function
Create a migrations/__init__.py in your app
Run python manage.py makemigrations --skip-checks and you should see your new migration file. The --skip-checks is required because the def…

browniebroke · 2024-10-16T08:01:43Z

Great question. I've had this issue while trying to contribute to reusable Django apps, it's a real problem.

I thought the answer would be simpler, but while trying it out, I found several issues with the current setup. Basically, you need to:

Add a manage.py at the root of your project. This can be taken from the standard django-admin startproject and pointing the default setting file to the test settings: os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "tests.settings") at the beginning of main() function
Create a migrations/__init__.py in your app
Run python manage.py makemigrations --skip-checks and you should see your new migration file. The --skip-checks is required because the default settings are failing the checks.

I'll see if I can make it work better out of the box, thanks for the question!

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Latest version of the template was updated here: #818

Thank you so much