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Simple Django configuration to serve a single-page app

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django-spa

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Django package to serve a single-page app (SPA).

The following settings that make serving SPAs easier are handled in django-spa:

  • index.html served when / requested

  • all /static/… files served on /… as well

  • Django’s urls still work (Django admin, templates, Django REST framework APIs)

  • everything else goes to / for frontend routing (e.g. react-router)

Usage

For an example of using django-spa to serve a create-react-app frontend that consumes a Django REST framework API, check out generator-django-rest.

As part of setting up django-spa, you also need to set up WhiteNoise, which we’ll summarise here.

First, add django-spa to your requirements.txt and pip install -r requirements.txt (or pipenv install django-spa). Whitenoise is installed as a dependency, so no need to specify it extra.

Update settings.py with the Whitenoise & django-spa middleware:

MIDDLEWARE = [
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
    'spa.middleware.SPAMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
]

Disable runserver’s static file serving by adding runserver_nostatic to the top of your INSTALLED_APPS list:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'whitenoise.runserver_nostatic',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    # ...
]

Set the django-spa static file storage:

STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'spa.storage.SPAStaticFilesStorage'

You should be good to go!

Credits

Used some parts of the solution suggested in this WhiteNoise issue for serving index.html on /. This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

License

MIT

History

0.3.0 (2019-12-15)

  • add example project

  • support Django 3.0

0.2.0 (2017-09-01)

  • Fix #3

0.1.1 (2017-04-08)

  • Metadata fixes.

0.1.0 (2017-04-08)

  • First release on PyPI.

  • Initial django-spa middleware.

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