Serving React from Django

Summary

Serving in

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Install Babel, Transpiler

npm install --save-dev @babel/core
# install presets and plugins for react
npm install --save-dev @babel/preset-env @babel/preset-react

Create .babelrc file in the react root dir To use the installed presets and plugins

# automatic is added to avoid react not found error

  "presets": [
    "@babel/preset-env",
    ["@babel/preset-react",  "runtime": "automatic"]
  ]

install, Webpack Note: while following the tutorial webpack-bundle-tracker version 1.0.0 worked not the one mentioned the tutorial.

npm install --save-dev webpack webpack-cli webpack-bundle-tracker@1.0.0 babel-loader css-loader style-loader clean-webpack-plugin

a. webpack is… well, Webpack b. webpack-cli allows you to run Webpack commands from the command line c. webpack-bundle-tracker is a plugin that writes some stats about the bundle(s) to a JSON file. d. babel-loader is a loader that tells Webpack to run Babel on the file before adding it to the bundle. e. css-loader and style-loader are loaders that allow you to import .css files into your JavaScript f. clean-webpack-plugin is a plugin that deletes old bundles from Webpack’s output directory every time a new bundle is created.

add webpack.config.js frontend app, ui, is in root of the repo at the same level as that of Django app.

const path = require('path')
const BundleTracker = require('webpack-bundle-tracker')
const  CleanWebpackPlugin  = require('clean-webpack-plugin')

module.exports =
  entry:
    ui: './src/index.js',
  ,
  output:
    path: path.resolve('../ksaflyer/app/static/frontend/'),
    // filename: '[name]-[hash].js',
    filename: '[name].js', // bundle will be created with ""ui"" name
    publicPath: 'static/frontend/',
    // publicPath: "auto"

  ,
  plugins: [
    new CleanWebpackPlugin(),
    new BundleTracker(
      path: __dirname,
      filename: '../ksaflyer/ksaflyer/webpack-stats.json',
    ),
  ],
  module:
    rules: [

        test: /\.js$/,
        exclude: /node_modules/,
        use: ['babel-loader'],
      ,

        test: /\.css$/,
        use: ['style-loader', 'css-loader'],
      ,
    ],
  ,

Add scrips in the package.json

"scripts":
  ...,
  "dev": "webpack --config webpack.config.js --watch --mode development",
  "build": "webpack --config webpack.config.js --mode production"

Install “django-webpack-loader” and configure

import os

...

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'webpack_loader',
    ...
]

...

WEBPACK_LOADER =
    'DEFAULT':
        'BUNDLE_DIR_NAME': 'frontend/',
        'STATS_FILE': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'webpack-stats.json')

add “index.html” webpack loader

% extends 'common/base.html' %
% load static %
% load render_bundle from webpack_loader %

% block content %
<div class="container">
  <div id="root"></div>
</div>
% render_bundle 'ui' % # ui is input entry name in webpack.config.js
% endblock content %


</html>

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