Create a New App

Basic Steps to create new app with Materialize admin template for full-version or starter-kit

1. To create a new app, open your terminal and run the following command python manage.py startapp APPNAME.

   Let's create an app with name test (django suggest snake_case name for application).

   Info: In this Django template, we have created an apps folder for the django application. so we suggest that you navigate to folder apps and use
   python ../manage.py startapp test

test
📂 migrations
│   └──📄 __init__.py
├── 📄 __init__.py
├── 📄 admin.py
├── 📄 apps.py
├── 📄 models.py
├── 📄 tests.py
└── 📄 views.py

Create a New Page

Basic Steps to create new page with Materialize admin template for full-version or starter-kit

1. Create templates folder with test.html file.

test
📂 migrations
│   └──📂 __init__.py
📂 templates
│   └──📄 test.html
├── 📄 __init__.py
├── 📄 admin.py
├── 📄 apps.py
├── 📄 models.py
├── 📄 tests.py
├── 📄 urls.py
└── 📄 views.py

Use the following code in test.html file.

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{% extends layout_path %}

{% load static %}
{% load i18n %}

{% block title %} Test Page - Starter Kit{% endblock title %}

{% block content %}

<h4 class="py-3 mb-6">{% translate "Title: Test Page" %}</h4>
<p>Content: Test page.</p>

{% endblock %}

2. For views.py content we have provided a snippet, Which can be accessed by django-view.

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from django.views.generic import TemplateView
from web_project import TemplateLayout


"""
This file is a view controller for multiple pages as a module.
Here you can override the page view layout.
Refer to test/urls.py file for more pages.
"""


class testView(TemplateView):
    # Predefined function
    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        # A function to init the global layout. It is defined in web_project/__init__.py file
        context = TemplateLayout.init(self, super().get_context_data(**kwargs))

        return context

3. Create urls.py (Startapp don't create urls.py file).

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from django.urls import path
from .views import testView


urlpatterns = [
    path(
        "",
        testView.as_view(template_name="test.html"),
        name="test",
    ),
]

4. Add the app (We can get this name form test/apps.py) in config/settings.py and config/urls.py which is in config folder.

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   INSTALLED_APPS = [
     "apps.test"
   ]

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   urlpatterns = [
     path("test/", include("apps.test.urls")),
   ]

5. Update apps.py file. In the name parameter add apps as prefix. Ex: apps.test
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from django.apps import AppConfig


class TestConfig(AppConfig):
    default_auto_field = 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'
    name = 'apps.test'

6. Add page link to vertical & horizontal menu. Find vertical_menu.json and horizontal_menu.json files inside templates/layout/partials/menu folder.

Option 1: To add menu item as main menu:

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{
  "url": "test",(in this template this url take name-url)
  "name": "Test Page",
  "icon": "menu-icon tf-icons ri-inbox-2-line",
  "slug": "test"
},

Option 2: To add menu item as sub menu:

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{
  "name": "Test",
  "icon": "menu-icon tf-icons ri-inbox-2-line",
  "slug": "Test",
  "submenu": [
    {
      "url": "test",
      "name": "Test Page",
      "slug": "test"
    },
  ]
},

7. For page searching options in navbar search box, add page link in search-vertical.json and search-horizontal.json inside src/assets/json/ folder.
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{
  "name": "Test Page",
  "icon": "ri-inbox-2-line",
  "url": "/pages/testPage/"
},

8. Add page name to locale/fr/django.po {all language po} file to display in multi language.
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msgid "Test"
msgstr "Tablu"

For generating to create fr.po file run command python manage.py compilemessages

To serve your project to localhost, you need to run the command python manage.py runserver