Serving a react app with a flask server

Project overview

This project shows how to serve a simple react application created by create-react-app with a flask server.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

Ensure that you have the following tools available on your machine;

• Git A distributed version control system
• Python A general purpose programming language
• node A JavaScript runtime
• A tool to create isolated Python environments preferably Virtualenv
• Pip A tool for installing python packages
• create-react-app A supported way of creating single-page React applications
• yarn A package manager for javascript

Installing

While in your preferred terminal;

Start by cloning the repository to your local machine

git clone https://github.com/googleinterns/step82-2020.git

cd step82-2020

Make and activate a python virtual environment using virtualenv

virtualenv venv (alternatively: pyhton3 -m venv venv)

source venv/bin/activate

With the virtual environment activated, install the project dependencies for the flask server

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

cd react-app/

yarn install

Serving the application

You can start a local server by opening two terminals and running

cd react-app
npm run start

cd flask-server
python3 main.py

visit http://127.0.0.1:3000/ to view your application.

Build the application for production

You can start a local server by opening two terminals and running

cd react-app
npm run build
cd ../flask-server
python3 main.py

visit http://127.0.0.1:5000/ to view your application.

Built With

• Flask - A python web framework
• React - A JavaScript library for building user interfaces

Authors

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.