Name: Streamline Django and Heroku Configuration
Uploaded: 2021-12-14T14:00:00+00:00
Duration: 4 min 37 s
Description: You’ve seen that configuring a Django project for hosting in the cloud can be tedious and error-prone. Fortunately, there are ways to streamline this process. In this lesson, you’ll take a closer look at a convenience library called django-heroku…

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Here are the command-line snippets used in this lesson:

Shell
      
        
      
    
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ python -m pip install django-heroku
$ python -m pip freeze > requirements.txt
$ cat requirements.txt
$ vim portfolio/settings.py
$ python -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe())'
$ heroku config:set SECRET_KEY='<your-secret>'
$ heroku config
$ heroku config:unset DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC
$ git status
$ git commit -am "Install and use django-heroku"
$ git push heroku
$ heroku open

Python Requirements
      
    
asgiref==3.4.1
dj-database-url==0.5.0
Django==3.2.7
django-heroku==0.3.1
psycopg2==2.9.2
pytz==2021.3
sqlparse==0.4.2
whitenoise==5.3.0

Python
      
    
# ...

# Remove or comment out the hardcoded secret key:
# SECRET_KEY = 'django-insecure-3!1cb-qaq$f71ex!$t#ws(+^w$fx%pifq13dc!qow2ui!4^$^g'

# ...

# Let django-heroku set the allowed hosts:
ALLOWED_HOSTS = []

# ...

# Add this at the bottom of your settings file:
import django_heroku
django_heroku.settings(locals())