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Master Django Settings Like a Pro with Code Splitting! 🚀

3 min readFeb 25, 2025
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Managing settings in a Django project can get messy easily, especially as your project scales. A single settings.py file often turns into a bloated, hard-to-maintain mess.

The solution?

Code-splitting Django settings into multiple files based on environments (e.g., development, staging, production). This keeps your configuration more organized, secure, and scalable!

Why we need to Split Django Settings?

To split Django settings into multiple files will better organize by separating settings for development, testing, and production. It improve security by keeping sensitive information out of your version control. Easier debugging by quickly locate and modify environment-specific settings.

Step-by-Step: Splitting Django Settings

By following these steps you can easily split your Django settings with multiple environments.

1. Create a settings/ Directory

Inside your Django project, replace settings.py with a new folder:

mv myproject/settings.py myproject/settings/
mkdir myproject/settings
touch myproject/settings/__init__.py

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Aashish Kumar
Aashish Kumar

Written by Aashish Kumar

Hi, I’m Aashish Kumar, a passionate software engineer from India 🇮🇳, specialize in Python | Django | AI | LLM | Full Stack Development.

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