How to properly runserver on different settings for Django?

Question

I have a basic django rest API. I want to separate some of my settings for dev and prod just for organizational purposes. I\'m also just learning about separating environments.

Answer 1

Put all your common configurations in the commonsettings.py file.

add following the line into the __init__.py file in the settings directory

from commonsettings import *

This makes every configuration in the commonsettings file available in all other files in the settings folder

start your server with

python3 manage.py runserver --settings=djangorest.settings.dev