Creating Your First Django App for Personal Finance

Now that our Django project is set up, it's time to add an app—the heart of your financial tracker!

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1. What Is a Django App?

A "Django app" is a module that handles a specific feature (like tracking transactions). Projects can have many apps.

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2. Create the Tracker App

Run this command:

python manage.py startapp tracker

Your folder now includes tracker/ with:

• models.py: Data models
• views.py: Request handlers
• admin.py: Admin settings

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3. Register the App

Open config/settings.py and add 'tracker', to INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...default apps
    'tracker',
]

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4. Why Register?

This lets Django know to include your app's models, views, and admin features.

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Next up: designing the models for your tracker!

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