Django Setting in Brief

Setting files are the files that contain the configuration of django project.Whats in the setting file?

  • BASE_DIR : The directory where the project is located.
  • SECRET_KEY : A secret key used for cryptographic signing such as sessions,cookie,password reset tokens,cross-site request forgery protection,etc.
  • DEBUG : A boolean that turns on/off the debug mode.
  • ALLOWED_HOSTS : A list of strings representing the host/domain names that the django site can serve.
  • INSTALLED_APPS : A list of application names that are enabled in the project.
  • MIDDLEWARE : A list of middleware that is applied to the request/response cycle for each request.
  • ROOT_URLCONF :The base URL from which all URL patterns are derived.
  • TEMPLATES : A list of dictionaries containing the configuration of the template engine.
    • BACKEND : The engine to use for rendering templates.
    • DIRS : A list of directories where the template engine should look for template source files.Used To make global templates folder
    • context_processors : A list of context processors that are applied to each request.

Note: Template are not used in DRF -WSGI_APPLICATION : The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use.

  • DATABASES : A dictionary containing the database configuration.
  • AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS : A list of validators that are used to check the strength of the password.
  • TIME_ZONE : The time zone of the project.
  • LANGUAGE_CODE : The language code for the project.’en-us’ is the default language code.
  • DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD : The default primary key field for the project.