django-classy-settings VS python-decouple

While we started off using `django-environ` to help manage environment-based/12-factor settings, we've moved away from it in favor of django-classy-settings.

The biggest knock against django-environ is that it does not treat the `.env` syntax the same as Docker or bash -- meaning that the same environment file can't be reliably used to provide variables for both the container and Django.

django-classy-settings has been a joy to use, and its code is really simple and readable (~150 lines).

[0] https://github.com/funkybob/django-classy-settings/

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 It might be slightly out of date, but I'm pretty sure it'll work just fine.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.