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Creating a project with dg

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dg allows you to create a special type of Python package, called a project, that defines a Dagster code location.

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Dagster projects created with dg are compatible with Dagster Components. For more information, see the Dagster Components documentation.

Prerequisites​

Before creating a project with dg, you must install dg.

Creating a project​

bash dg init my-project

Project structure​

The dg init command creates a directory with a standard Python package structure with some additions:

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├── pyproject.toml
├── src
│   └── jaffle_platform
│       ├── __init__.py
│       ├── definitions.py
│       ├── defs
│       │   └── __init__.py
│       └── lib
│           └── __init__.py
├── tests
│   └── __init__.py
└── uv.lock

6 directories, 7 files
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To use tree, install it with brew install tree (Mac), or follow the installation instructions.

  • The Python package my-project lives in src/my-project and contains the deployable code that defines your Dagster pipelines.
  • my-project/defs will contain your Dagster definitions.
  • my-project/lib is where you will define custom component types, and optionally other code you wish to share across Dagster definitions.
  • my-project/definitions.py is the entry point that Dagster will load when deploying your code location. It is configured to load all definitions from my-project/defs. You should not need to modify this file.
  • tests is a separate Python package defined at the top level (outside src). It should contain tests for the my-project package.
  • pyproject.toml is a standard Python package configuration file. In addition to the regular Python package metadata, it contains a tool.dg section for dg-specific settings.
  • uv.lock is the lockfile for the Python package manager uv. dg projects use uv by default. For more information, see uv integration.