dj-database-url VS python-decouple

One I would like to see is for dj-database-url (https://github.com/jazzband/dj-database-url) to be built-into the project. It is one of those extensions I am always going to install because it is just so handy.

DJ-Database-URL DJ-Database-URL is a package that allows easy configuration of database settings in Django projects using environment variables or URLs. It provides a convenient way to manage database settings, especially in production environments where URLs typically provide database connections.

To hook it into the Django app the simplest method is to use the dj-database-url package. This will read the DATABASE_URL string from Heroku and convert it into an appropriate DATABASES object in your settings file.

dj-database-url: for connecting to various databases

Use a library likepython-decouple to separate secrets like DB_xxx, SECRET_KEY, etc. Then follow this deploy to Digital Ocean. It might be slightly out of date, but I'm pretty sure it'll work just fine.

Documentation for python decouple: https://github.com/henriquebastos/python-decouple/ Documentation for smtplib: https://docs.python.org/3/library/smtplib.html

I wish Django was more "12-factor" compliant by default. Reading secrets from environment variables should be a first-class citizen and it's not. I typically use python-decouple (https://github.com/henriquebastos/python-decouple/) for that but it would be great to have it as default.

python-decouple: We can remove sensitive data like SEECERT_KEY, DB Password from settings.py and add it in .env file.

https://github.com/henriquebastos/python-decouple

I’ve been using this for a while and it seems to solve this pretty well.

First, about the libraries that will be used, there will be three: Python Requests, json and Python Decouple. Python Requests will be responsible for carrying out the HTTP requests, json will help handle the responses obtained for the .json format, and the Python Decouple library will assist in the separation of the authentication from what is in the code.