I am currently working on functionality where users wants to keep a single message in header of a page to notify others of something happening in system. Essentially a header that can be updated by any user. As this header needs to be shown to every user in site I can't store it in local storage or user's table. Also this is a single line of message on a single page, so making a whole database table for this sounds utterly stupid. So to achieve this functionality for now I have added a json file in BE which just have this message in there and a view which allows users to edit this file. I have also placed this file in gitignore because data change in this should not reflect in git. This system works fine for now, but when I redeploy using Docker this file is removed and rebuilt losing the initial message. Is there a better way to store and update this data? Or any way to not lose my data on redeploy? userdata.json { message: "Holiday tomorrow, please report any issues by 3." } Reading data in Django View try: if not os.path.exists(USERDATA_FILE): # Create the file with default structure if it doesn't exist with open(USERDATA_FILE, "w") as file: json.dump({"message": "Hello World!"}, file, indent=4) with open(USERDATA_FILE, "r") as file: data = json.load(file) except Exception as e: print("Error in reading data") Continue reading...
