Install graphviz
and libgraphviz-dev
before installing pip packages.
apt install libgraphviz-dev graphviz
pip install pygraphviz
pip install pydot
pip install django-extensions
Add these lines to settings.py
file
GRAPH_MODELS = {
'all_applications': True,
'group_models': True,
}
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'django_extensions',
...
)
To generate dotfiles run this command from django prompt. This is the simplest form of generating graph for all the apps.
./manage.py graph_models -a > my_project.dot
To get image instead of dotfile run this command
./manage.py graph_models --pygraphviz -a -g -o my_project_visualized.png
Links for reference
https://django-extensions.readthedocs.io/en/latest/graph_models.html