🚀 How I Created Two Django Applications with Their Own Templates

In todays Django learning i successfully built a project that contains two separate applications, each with its own HTML templates. In this article, I’ll walk you through what I did and what I learned — from setting up the project to organizing templates. Before you start the project you need to have;

1.Python (version 3.10 or higher recommended)
2. Code Editor ( Visual Studio Code)
3.Browser

I followed the below steps:

1 🛠 Setting Up the Django Project

first open the vscode and open the terminal
then Create a Virtual Environment & Activate It

python

   # Create a folder for your project
    mkdir my_django_project
    cd my_django_project

    # Create virtual environment
    python -m venv venv

    # Activate the virtual environment
    .\venv\Scripts\activate  # for Windows

After activation, you'll see this:

 (venv) C:\Users\YourName\my_django_project>

2.📦 Install Django

pip install django

next lets run the code

python manage.py runserver

click the links provided and you with see such an image

3.🛠Create Django Project & Apps

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use the following commands to to create the main project and the two applications

# Create the project
django-admin startproject my_project .

# Create two apps
python manage.py startapp users
python manage.py startapp blog

4. Register Apps in config/settings.py

**
Open my_project/settings.py and add the apps

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'users',
    'attendance',
]

5. Create Templates in Each App

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In each app folder, create template directories like this:

users/
└── templates/
    └── users/
        └── home.html

blog/
└── templates/
    └── blog/
        └── check_in.html

Then add some HTML like this in home.html:

6. Update views.py in each app

from django.shortcuts import render
users/views.py

def home(request):
    return render(request, 'users/home.html')

blog/views.py

from django.shortcuts import render

def check_in(request):
    return render(request, 'blog/check_in.html')

7. Create urls.py in both apps

**
users/urls.py

from django.urls import path
from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path('', views.home, name='users-home'),
]

blog/urls.py

from django.urls import path
from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path('', views.home, name='users-home'),
]

8.Update Main URLconf in config/urls.py

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('', include('users.urls')),
    path('blog/', include('blog.urls')),
]

9.Final Folder Structure Overview

my_django_project/
├── my_project/
│   └── settings.py, urls.py, ...
├── users/
│   ├── views.py
│   └── templates/users/home.html
├── blog/
│   ├── views.py
│   └── templates/blog/check_in.html
├── venv/
├── manage.py