hybrid-django-react 0.0.4

Django starter project template. Dockerized Django serving a static React app

Starter project template: Dockerized hybrid Django React app

Starter project template using docker to build a Django app that serves React apps statically (as JavaScript files)

Stack:

• Django (with Rest framework, PostgreSQL, SMTP gmail backend, whitenoise, etc.)
• React (bundled with webpack and transpiled with babel)
• Docker
• Deployment to Heroku

First Setup

1. Make sure poetry is installed pip install poetry
2. Execute python setup/run.py or py setup\run.py
3. After the project is setup, start the docker container to start working docker-compose up -d. The "setup" folder will delete itself after setting up the project, as to leave a cleaner project.

Debugging with Docker and VSCode

Support for debugging remotely if you're running with Docker is supported out-of-the-box.

To debug with Docker:

1. Rebuild and run your Docker containers as usual: docker-compose up --build

2. Start the debug session from VS Code for the [django:docker] runserver configuration

   1. Select [django:docker] runserver from the dropdown near the Play button in the top left.

   2. Hit the Play button or hit F5 to start debugging

      • Logs will redirect to your integrated terminal as well.

3. Set some breakpoints in functions or methods executed when needed. Usually it's Model methods or View functions

Adding external libraries

It's better to install external libraries from from Docker directly

1. Python libraries:
   1. docker-compose exec web poetry add [pip_package] for production libraries
      • Example: docker-compose exec web poetry add django-extensions
   2. docker-compose exec web poetry add [pip_package] --dev for development libraries
      • Example: docker-compose exec web poetry add --dev selenium
2. JavaScript libraries:
   1. docker-compose exec web npm install [npm_package] for production libraries
      • Example: docker-compose exec web npm install lodash
   2. docker-compose exec web npm install -D [npm_package] for development libraries
      • Example: docker-compose exec web npm install -D jest

Deploy to Heroku

First setup

Followed guide of "Django for professionals" book

Consecutive deployments to production

Deploy by pushing to Heroku git repository: git push heroku main