Create the proper paths and a base django-click command. Django management commands are a useful and powerful way to make easy-to-use command line tools for your Django project.

However, Django assumes your commands live in Python files in a very specific file system layout relative to your Django app. Specifically, they need to live in <app_name>/management/commands/ and each of these folders needs an empty __init__.py.

Frankly, I'm too old to be bothered to manually create this structure on at least a weekly basis so I built this little utility to do it for me. It will create the paths, empty __init__.py files and X number of very simple django-click commands based on the names I pass as arguments.

Without any arguments, it will simply create the proper path structure for you.

Install this tool using pip:

pip install https://github.com/frankwiles/make-management-command

For help, run:

make-management-command --help

Just create the path structure:

make-management-command

Create two commands named foo and bar:

make-management-command foo bar

To contribute to this tool, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:

cd make-management-command
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:

pip install -e '.[test]'

To run the tests:

pytest