Add django-admin startapp template

docs/troubleshooting.rst

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Others
 
 #. ``jinja2.exceptions.TemplateSyntaxError: Encountered unknown tag 'now'.``: please upgrade your cookiecutter version to >= 1.4 (see `#528`_)
 
-#. New apps not getting created in project root: This is the expected behavior, because cookiecutter-django does not change the way that django startapp works, you'll have to fix this manually (see `#1725`_)
+#. To create a new app using the recommended directory structure, run `django-admin startapp --template=../startapp_template myappname` from inside the project root. This template can be customized to suit your needs. (see `startapp`_)
 
 .. _#528: https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django/issues/528#issuecomment-212650373
-.. _#1725: https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django/issues/1725#issuecomment-407493176
+.. _startapp: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/django-admin/#startapp

hooks/post_gen_project.py

@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ def remove_celery_files():
         os.path.join(
             "{{ cookiecutter.project_slug }}", "users", "tests", "test_tasks.py"
         ),
+        os.path.join("startapp_template", "tasks.py-tpl"),
     ]
     for file_name in file_names:
         os.remove(file_name)
@@ -327,6 +328,9 @@ def remove_drf_starter_files():
             "{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}", "users", "tests", "test_swagger.py"
         )
     )
+    shutil.rmtree(os.path.join("startapp_template", "api"))
+    os.remove(os.path.join("startapp_template", "tests", "test_drf_urls.py-tpl"))
+    os.remove(os.path.join("startapp_template", "tests", "test_drf_views.py-tpl"))
 
 
 def remove_storages_module():

{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/startapp_template/admin.py-tpl

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+"""Define and register {{ '{{' }} app_name {{ '}}' }} app admin models."""
+from django.contrib import admin
+
+# Register your models here.

{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/startapp_template/api/serializers.py-tpl

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+"""Define serializers for the {{ '{{' }} app_name {{ '}}' }} api."""
+from rest_framework import serializers

{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/startapp_template/api/views.py-tpl

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+"""Define API views for {{ '{{' }} app_name {{ '}}' }} app."""

{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/startapp_template/apps.py-tpl

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+from django.apps import AppConfig
+
+
+class {{ '{{' }} camel_case_app_name {{ '}}' }}Config(AppConfig):
+    name = '{{ "{{" }} app_name {{ "}}" }}'

{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/startapp_template/forms.py-tpl

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+"""Define {{ '{{' }} app_name {{ '}}' }} app forms."""
+from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
+
+# Create your forms here.

{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/startapp_template/models.py-tpl

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+"""Define {{ '{{' }} app_name {{ '}}' }} app models."""
+from django.db import models
+
+# Create your models here.

{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/startapp_template/tasks.py-tpl

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+"""Define {{ '{{' }} app_name {{ '}}' }} app Celery tasks."""
+from config import celery_app

{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/startapp_template/tests/factories.py-tpl

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+"""Define factories to generate testing data."""
+from typing import Any, Sequence
+
+from factory import Faker, post_generation
+from factory.django import DjangoModelFactory

{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/startapp_template/tests/test_admin.py-tpl

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+import pytest
+from django.urls import reverse
+
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.django_db

{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/startapp_template/tests/test_drf_urls.py-tpl

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+import pytest
+from django.urls import resolve, reverse
+
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.django_db

{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/startapp_template/tests/test_drf_views.py-tpl

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+import pytest
+from django.test import RequestFactory
+
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.django_db

{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/startapp_template/tests/test_forms.py-tpl

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+"""
+Module for all {{ '{{' }} app_name {{ '}}' }} Form Tests.
+"""
+import pytest
+from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
+
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.django_db

{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/startapp_template/tests/test_models.py-tpl

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+import pytest
+
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.django_db

{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/startapp_template/tests/test_urls.py-tpl

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+import pytest
+from django.urls import resolve, reverse
+
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.django_db

{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/startapp_template/tests/test_views.py-tpl

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+import pytest
+from django.conf import settings
+from django.contrib import messages
+from django.contrib.auth.models import AnonymousUser
+from django.contrib.messages.middleware import MessageMiddleware
+from django.contrib.sessions.middleware import SessionMiddleware
+from django.http import HttpRequest
+from django.test import RequestFactory
+from django.urls import reverse
+
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.django_db

{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/startapp_template/views.py-tpl

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+"""Define {{ '{{' }} app_name {{ '}}' }} app views."""
+from django.shortcuts import render
+
+# Create your views here.