hybrid-django-react 0.1.0

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)

Tech stack

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

Prerequisites

• Docker
• pip, poetry, pyenv or a similar tool to access pypi

Installation

Install with the following command pip install hybrid-django-react

Usage

Run the scripts with the following command: ````create-django-react-app```

You will be prompted for some information like project name, email, etc. This data is needed to change the configuration files accordingly

After the script has run, you don't need this tool anymore :)

Simply start the docker container to start working: docker-compose up -d

Debugging with Docker and VSCode

Support for debugging remotely with VSCode is supported out-of-the-box.

To debug with Docker:

1. Run your Docker containers as usual: docker-compose up -d --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

Python libraries:

Production libraries

docker-compose exec web poetry add [pip_package]

Development libraries

docker-compose exec web poetry add [pip_package] --dev

JavaScript libraries:

Production libraries

docker-compose exec web npm install [npm_package]

Development libraries

docker-compose exec web npm install -D [npm_package]

Deploy to Heroku

First setup

1. Create an account and install Heroku CLI
2. Create a new app on Heroku ````heroku create``` Your app will get a randomly generated name, like "lazy-beyond-52146". Let's call this name [APP_NAME]
3. Add environment variables that Django needs to read:
   1. DJANGO_ENVIRONMENT: heroku config:set DJANGO_ENVIRONMENT=production
   2. DJANGO_SECRET_KEY: You can create a safe secret key using this site heroku config:set DJANGO_SECRET_KEY=[secret_key]}
   3. DJANGO_DEBUG: heroku config:set DJANGO_DEBUG=False
4. Set the stack to Docker containers using the app's name heroku stack:setcontainer -a [APP_NAME]
5. Create a managed postgresql database on Heroku heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev -a [APP_NAME]
6. Create a heroku remote repository and push changes to it heroku git:remote -a [APP_NAME] git push heroku main
7. Migrate Database and create superuser heroku run python manage.py migrate heroku run python manage.py createsuperuser
8. After deployment, check that the site's security audit shows no warnings

Consecutive deployments to production

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