Environment Variables

The .env file is a crucial configuration file that stores environment variables. These variables help to configure aspects of the system such as security, database connections, and external service credentials. Here's what each variable typically means:

• DEBUG=True: This is a Django setting that turns on the debug mode. When set to True, Django displays detailed error pages when something goes wrong, which is helpful during development but should be set to False in a production environment for security reasons.

• SECRET_KEY: This is a key used by Django for cryptographic signing. The value provided here should be a unique and unpredictable value to ensure that tokens, cookies, and other secure data remain secret.

• DATABASE_URL: This is the connection string for the database.

• QDRANT_URL: This points to the Qdrant service.

• QDRANT_SECRET: If the Qdrant service requires authentication, this variable would hold the secret key or token used to authenticate requests.

• TRANSFORMER_MODEL: This variable likely refers to the specific transformer model to be used for language processing tasks.

• OPEN_AI_KEY: This variable is to store the API key for OpenAI.

• VITE_AUTH0_DOMAIN, VITE_AUTH0_CLIENT_ID, VITE_JWT_AUDIENCE, and VITE_JWT_ISSUER: These are related to Auth0.

• JWT_AUDIENCE and JWT_ISSUER: Similar to the VITE_ variables, but these are used by the backend for creating and verifying JWTs.

It's important to keep this file secure as it contains sensitive information that should not be exposed publicly, especially in a production environment.