# Apps

Apps are a way to group database models and API routes that contextually belong together.
For example, OhMyAPI comes bundled with an `auth` app that carries a `User` and `Group` model and provides API endpoints for JWT authentication.

Apps help organizing projects by isolating individual components (or "features") from one another.

## Create an App

Create a new app by: `ohmyapi startapp <name>`, i.e.:

```
ohmyapi startapp restaurant
```

This will create the following directory structure:

```
myproject/
  - restaurant/
    - __init__.py
    - models.py
    - routes.py
  - pyproject.toml
  - README.md
  - settings.py
```

Add `restaurant` to your `INSTALLED_APPS` in `settings.py` and restart you project runtime:

```
ohmyapi serve
```