Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

Exposing settings in JavaScript

Django projects have their configuration set in the settings files, such as myproject/settings/dev.py for the development environment; we described this in the Configuring settings for development, testing, staging, and production environments recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Django 3.0. Some of these configuration values may also be useful for functionality in the browser, and so they will also need to be set in JavaScript. We want a single location to define our project settings, so, in this recipe, we will see how we can pass some configuration values from the Django server to the browser.