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Is it possible to generate a diagram of an entire Django site? For example, to understand the model/database structure I use graphViz which is extremely useful for keeping track of the model structure, and very useful for discussions.
I was curious if something similar existed for the complete Django site so that urls/models/views/templates could all be represented graphically. I don't quite know what that would look like but am curious if any tool exists to do this.
This would programmatically generate a diagram showing the code flow between different parts of the site.
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You can make Django web apps work faster, more engaging and also work offline. You just need to have support for sevice worker's in your target browser.
Django comes with a utility called inspectdb that can create models by introspecting an existing database. You can view the output by running this command: $ python manage.py inspectdb. Save this as a file by using standard Unix output redirection: $ python manage.py inspectdb > models.py.
AutoField. An IntegerField that automatically increments according to available IDs. You usually won't need to use this directly; a primary key field will automatically be added to your model if you don't specify otherwise.
You can use django-extensions app for generating model visualisations.
setting.py
INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', '...', 'django_extensions', 'django.contrib.admin', # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation: # 'django.contrib.admindocs', ) Give this command in terminal
python manage.py graph_models -a -o myapp_models.png This will generate a png file named myapp_models.png. It will have visualised image of the models. More documentation can be found here.
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