[Solved] How to have the `theme` folder in a nested folder? about django-tailwind

[simkimsia]

I figured it out after studying the source code by searching the message not in INSTALLED_APPS

In my case, i want to put theme inside themes.

These are the steps for those who want to put their theme folder in nested folders

1. Change the apps.py in the theme folder to themes.theme (already did this in my question)
2. Update the INSTALLED_APPS to include themes.theme (also did this in question)
3. Update the TEMPLATES so that it prioritizes the right folder. (also did this)

What I didn't do is update TAILWIND_APP_NAME to themes.theme

So my final answer is

step 1: in settings.py

# TAILWIND
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TAILWIND_APP_NAME = "themes.theme"
# Split the string by '.'
tailwind_tokens = TAILWIND_APP_NAME.split(".")

# Get the last token
TAILWIND_APP_FOLDER_NAME = tailwind_tokens[-1] if tailwind_tokens else None

INTERNAL_IPS = [
    "127.0.0.1",
]

TAILWIND_APP_DIR = BASE_DIR / "themes" / TAILWIND_APP_FOLDER_NAME
TEMPLATES[0]["DIRS"] = [str(TAILWIND_APP_DIR / "templates")] + TEMPLATES[0]["DIRS"]

step 2: in the apps.py

from django.apps import AppConfig


class ThemeConfig(AppConfig):
    name = "themes.theme"

Note that BASE_DIR is defined to be the full path going towards project root.