Django & React application

This is a set up so that we can easily create apps that use Django on the backend (and take advantage of the amazing admin UI) and React (set up with create-react-app) for the front end application.

Running

Create Dockerfile for : api and frontend project, then:

1. docker-compose build
2. docker-compose up
3. There should now be two servers running:

• http://127.0.0.1:5000 is the Django app
• http://127.0.0.1:3000 is the React app

Using docker-compose run to issue one-off commands

If you want to run a one-off command, like installing dependencies, you can use the docker-compose run <service_name> <cmd>.

For example, to install a Javascript dependency and save that information to package.json we could run: docker-compose run --rm frontend npm install --save axios

If you want to be on a shell for one of the Docker services, you can do something like: docker-compose run --rm frontend bash