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This repo contains a sample application for a node front-end that calls a Django REST Framework API and uses a PostgreSQL database.

It was built for a DjangoCon 2019 talk.

• Slides: View in Browser, Download
• Video - Video

Pre-requisites:

• Docker community edition
• Visual Studio Code
• Docker Extension
• Remote - Containers Extension

Clone the repo and open the workspace:

git clone https://github.com/qubitron/django-react-devcontainer
cd django-react-devcontainer
code .

Click the "Reopen in Container" button on the popup that appears, after it loads VS Code is running in the container!

To build the front-end, open a new terminal using Ctrl-Shift-` and run:

cd frontend
npm install
npm start

To run the Django back-end open a new terminal using Ctrl-Shift-` and run:

python manage.py migrate
python manage.py createsuperuser
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

You may be interested to check out some of the additional links for more information:

• Developing inside a container on a remote docker host
• Django Webpack Loader, for another way to serve up webpack from Django
• Django Docker tutorial from Lincoln Loop, with some advanced & useful features
• Deploying Containers to Azure App Service with VS Code
• Create a PostgreSQL database in Azure