Question

Currently i have my models, views, forms in default file.
But i want to have directory structure like

articles
---------models
---------views
---------forms

Books
---------models
---------views
---------forms

Icecreams
---------models
---------views
---------forms

so that i keep separately but i don’t want different app

Answer 1

The directory structure you describe is the individual apps directory structure. If you want it to look like that, you have to make them separate apps. However, you can do something like:

myapp/
    __init__.py
    models/
        __init__.py
        articles.py
        books.py
        icecream.py

Simply add a models directory and delete models.py. Then, create a separate .py file for each model/group of models you want to separate.

Here’s the important part: on each of your models you must add the following to their Meta class:

class MyModel(models.Model):
    ...
    class Meta:
        ...
        app_label = 'myapp'

Where ‘myapp’, is the main app folder all these models are stored in.

Then, edit models/__init__.py and import all your models there, e.g.:

from .articles import Article
from .books import Book
from .icecream import IceCream

However, the models you list as examples are pretty obvious candidates for distinct apps. The approach above is really only for related models. If your models are truly that distinct, they should be individual apps.