Simple creation of a single-app django project

django_init

#!/bin/bash
#
# Simple creation of a single-app django project, as described in: https://zindilis.com/posts/django-anatomy-for-single-app/
#
# ./django_init foo
#
# This will result is the following flat structure:
#
# .
# └── foo
#     ├── manage.py
#     ├── settings.py
#     ├── urls.py
#     ├── foo
#     │   ├── __init__.py
#     │   ├── admin.py
#     │   ├── apps.py
#     │   ├── migrations
#     │   │   └── __init__.py
#     │   ├── models.py
#     │   ├── tests.py
#     │   └── views.py
#     └── wsgi.py
#
# Note: this script assumes a GNU-compatible sed is installed. On macOS you can get this easily with Homebrew.

prj=$1
django-admin startproject $prj
cd $prj
mv $prj/* .
rm __init__.py
rm -rf $prj
sed -i 's/'"${prj}"'\.settings/settings/g' manage.py wsgi.py
sed -i 's/'"${prj}"'\.urls/urls/g' settings.py
sed -i 's/'"${prj}"'\.wsgi\.application/wsgi.application/g' settings.py
sed -i '/BASE_DIR = /s/Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent/Path(__file__).resolve().parent/' settings.py
sed -i 's/'"${prj}"'\.wsgi\.application/wsgi.application/g' settings.py
./manage.py startapp ${prj}

Thanks for the verification!

It should be noted that you still need to add ${prj} to INSTALLED_APPS for things like models to be detected.