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Django uses
INSTALLED_APPS
as a list of all of the places to look for models, management commands, tests, and other utilities.
If you made two apps (say
myapp
and
myuninstalledapp
), but only one was listed in
INSTALLED_APPS
, you'd notice the following behavior:
The models contained in
myuninstalledapp/models.py
would never trigger migration changes (or generate initial migrations). You wouldn't be able to interact with them on the database level either because their tables will have never been created.
Static files listed within
myapp/static/
would be discovered as part of collectstatic or the test server's staticfiles serving, but
myuninstalledapp/static
files wouldn't be.
Tests within
myapp/tests.py
would run but
myuninstalledapp/tests.py
wouldn't.
Management commands listed in
myuninstalledapp/management/commands/
wouldn't be discovered.
So really, you're welcome to have folders within your Django project that aren't installed apps (you can even create them with
python manage.py startapp
) but just know that certain auto-discovery Django utilities won't work for that application.
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