Django & React Tutorial #3 - React Integration Using Webpack & Babel
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it as the manual Webpack/Babel setup for serving React from Django, usually when asking why their build breaks or how to do it differently with create-react-app.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2020 to 2021.
What it is
Part 3 of Tech With Tim's Django and React series, showing how to wire a React frontend into a Django project using Webpack and Babel. It walks through the npm setup, config files, and a Django template that React controls. Presented as a follow-along screencast, with code on GitHub.
What people said
Recommends James Huang · 2021-06 · Stack Overflow · on “Create-react app integration with django backend vs babel and webpack pipeline”
I've been trying to get up a react and django application. First, I had followed this set of videos here: [this video] . There was a bunch of commands that you can see in the description that needed to be run in as well as a lot of copy pasting configuration files. Later, my friend told me that create-react-app existed and would set up everything needed with just one command. I tried it, and it worked really well. However, there were issues with connecting it to django. The files that came out of create-react-app were different to the ones shown in the video and when I tried searching it up, a few solutions said to use npm run build and pass the build folder into django. Running a build takes qui
Cites mumbosawce · 2020-12 · Stack Overflow · on “I am running into an error with an npm command in react. "ERROR in main Module not found: Error: Can't resolve ..."”
This is the link to the video: [this video] This is the github: [LINK] The second frontend folder inside static was intentional. I also tried changing the path to "../src/index.js" in the webpack file. Thank you
Cites sthompson232 · 2021-03 · Stack Overflow · on “Setup React/DRF without using CORS or CSRF tokens”
I have seen a great tutorial on YouTube where react was manually setup with DRF. Throughout the tutorial csrf tokens and django-cors-headers were not used at all. I am trying to achieve the same using npx create-react-app however csrf tokens and cors become an issue doing it this way. How am I able to avoid CSRF and CORS with my drf/react app! This is the tutorial: [this video]