Add Django-dotenv

Pipfile

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ yapf = "*"
 
 django = "*"
 django-extensions = "*"
+django-dotenv = "*"
 django-redis = "*"
 "psycopg2-binary" = "*"
 pytest = "*"

README.md

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ provide a useful setup. Most of my projects are deployed to Heroku, so this is o
 - Latest Django (hopefully).
 - Uses [Pipenv](https://github.com/kennethreitz/pipenv) - the best packaging tool.
 - [django-extensions](http://django-extensions.readthedocs.org) for the various useful commands and things.
+- [Django-dotenv](https://github.com/jpadilla/django-dotenv), so you can easily set environment variables and access
+  them in your settings file.
 - [ShortUUID](https://github.com/skorokithakis/shortuuid), because I end up using it most of the time.
 - Secure by default (various things won't work on production without TLS).
 - Runs under docker-compose by default, with a PostgreSQL and Redis instance (configured as a cache and session

manage.py

@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@
 import os
 import sys
 
+import dotenv
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
+    dotenv.read_dotenv()
+
     os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "{{ project_name }}.settings")
     try:
         from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line

project_name/wsgi.py

@@ -9,8 +9,11 @@
 
 import os
 
+import dotenv
 from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
 
+dotenv.read_dotenv(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)), '.env'))
+
 os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "{{ project_name }}.settings")
 
 application = get_wsgi_application()