Django App Structure

To make your individual Django app more portable (that is easier to move to other projects), you can use the following structure. In this one we called the app "posts".

posts/
|       __init__.py
|        admin.py
|        forms.py
|        models.py
|        tests.py
|        views.py
|---- migrations/
|                  __init__.py
|---- templates/
|--------- posts/
|                       post-detail.html
|                       post-list.html
|---- static/
|--------- posts/
|---------------- js/
|                                    post.custom.js
|---------------- css/
|                                    post.custom.css
|---------------- img/
|                                     post-default-img.jpg

Then when you run python manage.py collectstatic your static files will also go into the STATIC_ROOT you set in settings.py.

for using these static files you would do:

{% static "posts/js/post.custom.js" %}

, {% static "posts/css/post.custom.css" %} and so on.

and the templates:

{% include "posts/post-detail.html" %}

return render(request, 'posts/post-detail.html', {})