Django: Dynamically add apps as plugin, building urls and other settings automatically

Question

I have following structure of my folders in Django:

./project_root
    ./app
       ./fixtures/
       ./static/
       ./templates/
       ./blog/
       ./         


        

Answer 1

I've modified @Progressify's code a bit further to do away with the app prefix.

# in your project's urls.py
from django.apps import apps
from django.contrib import admin
from django.conf import settings
from django.urls import include, path

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    # ...
    # any other paths you may have
]

# Load urls from any app that defines a urls attribute in appname.apps.AppConfig
for app in settings.INSTALLED_APPS:
    try:
        app_config = apps.get_app_config(app.rsplit('.')[0])
        try:
            urls = app_config.urls
            urlpatterns += [
                path(f'{app_config.urls}', include(f'{app_config.name}.urls', namespace=f'{app_config.urls_namespace}')),
            ]
        except AttributeError:
            pass
            
    except LookupError:
        pass

This will look for an AppConfig in your project's apps.py that defines a prefix and a namespace, and include those accordingly. Admittedly the error catching is a bit crude, so you may want to refine it a bit depending on whether you want to allow your app to define urls but not a namespace, etc.

# in each of your apps' apps.py
from django.apps import AppConfig

class UsersConfig(AppConfig): # name the class whatever you want
    name = 'users'            # name of your app
    urls = ''                 # prefix for this app's urls –– may need to append slash
    urls_namespace = 'users'  # app url namespace –– it's "best practice" to define one