A sample of how to structure a django app with create-react-app to get past the cthulhuian madness of figuring out how to proxy CORs and CSRF in development, and the subtle "peculiarities" of djangorestframework.
One terminal for Django
pip install -r requirements.txt
./manage.py migrate
./manage.py runserver
Another terminal for the frontend
cd frontend
yarn
yarn run start
Setting up combined app structure for development (CORS & CSRF)
- https://www.fusionbox.com/blog/detail/create-react-app-and-django/624/
- https://facebook.github.io/create-react-app/docs/proxying-api-requests-in-development
- TODO: Deployment guide for Node + Django on Heroku
Global State Management (a simpler way to bypass passing props all over the place)
Using JWT and React Router
- https://hptechblogs.com/using-json-web-token-react/
- https://reacttraining.com/react-router/web/example/auth-workflow
More recent example using Context API
Misc React Stuff
- https://tylermcginnis.com/react-router-pass-props-to-components/
- https://til.hashrocket.com/posts/z8cimdpghg-passing-props-down-to-react-router-route
- https://www.robinwieruch.de/react-list-components/
- https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-reference.html#useref
Misc Django Stuff
Useful Dev Stuff (shell_plus, etc)
- https://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions
- https://github.com/Rhumbix/django-request-logging
- TODO: Find something that gives better logging for DRF 400's
App specific deps