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Including app URLs in a Django project

📖 Scenario: You are building a Django website with multiple apps. Each app has its own URLs. You want to connect these app URLs to the main project so the website works correctly.

🎯 Goal: Learn how to include app URLs inside the main project's URL configuration using Django's include() function.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a Django project-level urls.py file

Create an app-level urls.py file with URL patterns

Use include() to connect app URLs in the project URLs

Use exact variable and function names as instructed

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

In real Django projects, apps have their own URLs. Including them in the main project URLs keeps code organized and modular.

💼 Career

Understanding how to include app URLs is essential for Django web developers to build scalable and maintainable websites.

1

Create app-level URLs

Create a file called urls.py inside the app folder. Define a variable called app_name and set it to 'blog'. Then create a list called urlpatterns with one URL pattern: path '' mapped to a view function called home.

Django

# Create app_name and urlpatterns with one path for '' to home view
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use app_name = 'blog' and urlpatterns = [path('', views.home, name='home')].

2

Create project-level URLs

In the project folder, open urls.py. Import path and include from django.urls. Create a list called urlpatterns but leave it empty for now.

Django

from django.urls import path, include

# Create empty urlpatterns list
urlpatterns = [
    # Your code here
]

Need a hint?

Import include and create urlpatterns = [].

3

Include app URLs in project URLs

Add a path to urlpatterns that uses path('blog/', include('blog.urls')) to include the app URLs under the /blog/ URL prefix.

Django

from django.urls import path, include

urlpatterns = [
    # Add path to include blog.urls here
]

Need a hint?

Use path('blog/', include('blog.urls')) inside urlpatterns.

4

Complete project URLs with admin path

Add the Django admin path path('admin/', admin.site.urls) to urlpatterns. Import admin from django.contrib at the top.

Django

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

urlpatterns = [
    path('blog/', include('blog.urls')),
    # Add admin path here
]

Need a hint?

Import admin and add path('admin/', admin.site.urls) to urlpatterns.