Usage of Django with React and Rest Framework

This is an example project for using Django with React and Rest Framework. To test it out yourself, clone the repository and run the following.

Usage on Django, React Js & Rest API

Requirements

• Python 3
• virtualenvwrapper
• git
• NodeJS 4+ with NPM 3+

Setup virtaulwrapper, virtualenv (not required)

mkvirtualenv djr
workon djr

Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt
npm install

Django migrate, create admin user

./manage.py migrate
./manage.py createsuperuser

Run django server

./manage.py runserver

Login to Django Admin, create CMS pages

http://localhost:8040/admin/

In other terminal , compile file and run webpack dev server

./node_modules/.bin/webpack --config webpack.config.js --progress --colors

node server.js

The default home.html in templates is over ridden by React, Rest API. Any changes made to assets/js/index.jsx shows in browser.