Reusing one Django project as boilerplate for a new one
I have one project that I created as a Boilerplate (all the registration authentication stuff). Naturally I want to absorb that into my new one and so on for all the projects I create because I can't be repeating all that code. I find no way to do that in Pycharm. I am using the paid version (no trial) of Pycharm. It is not about clicking on Open, because what that does, is simply open the project. If I create one from scratch, how can I incorporate the BoilerPlate?
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Hi there
Thank you for reaching out,
Unfortunately PyCharm does not have a feature to do exactly what you have described.
While this has been raised long ago as a feature request it has not been implemented so far.
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-5752/Create-Django-project-from-custom-template
We do have the file template feature however this applies more to single files so I do not think it suits your request exactly.
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/using-file-and-code-templates.html
Do you think instead using VCS such as github could be an interesting option so you could start new projects cloning the boilerplate?
Kind regards,
I have inquired this in the AI assistant but, perplexed as I am, it turns out I have to copy and paste by hand all files and directories!! wtf! so is that the smart way to do it? god help me if I have to do that for all the large projects I want to use as boilerplate for the upcoming projects!
File Method (Recommended):
File | New | Projectfrom the main menuaccounts, )dashboardappetc etc etc