Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create and include the JavaScript settings:

1. In the views.py of your core app, create a js_settings() view that returns a response of the JavaScript content type, as shown in the following code:

# myproject/apps/core/views.pyimport jsonfrom django.http import HttpResponsefrom django.template import Template, Contextfrom django.views.decorators.cache import cache_pagefrom django.conf import settingsJS_SETTINGS_TEMPLATE = """window.settings = JSON.parse('{{ json_data|escapejs }}');"""@cache_page(60 * 15)def js_settings(request):    data = {        "MEDIA_URL": settings.MEDIA_URL,        "STATIC_URL": settings.STATIC_URL,        "DEBUG": settings.DEBUG,        "LANGUAGES": settings.LANGUAGES,        "DEFAULT_LANGUAGE_CODE": settings.LANGUAGE_CODE, ...