React-Django-Blog-Application

This project demonstrates the Integration of React with Django Backend over REST API, this project has two different applications

1. Django Blog Backend Application
2. React UI for Blog

Functionalities

• Create, Update and Delete User Profiles
• Login (Token based Authentication)
• Blog listing and detailed view
• Create, Update and Delete blog posts

Note: We will be executing django application on ubuntu machine, to achieve this we will run ubuntu on Vagrant

Requirements

• Vagrant
• VirtualBox
• Nodejs

Getting started

First install VirtualBox and Vagrant.

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/Prithvi45/React-Django-Blog-Application.git

Create and provision the VMs

cd React-Django-Blog-Application/Django-Backend-Application/
vagrant up

Note: the above can take several minutes, especially the first time it runs (needs to download the Ubuntu Vagrant Box and install the required packages on each VM). This will take long only the first time, starting and stoping the VMs hereafter will be significantly faster.

Connect to ubuntu virtual machine via ssh

vagrant ssh

Install all python packages

cd /vagrant/blogproject/
pip install requirements.txt

Start Django development server

python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8080

After executing above commands , check django development server running on http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/

Here we are done with backend part, lets go to React App

Navigate to React-Django-Blog-Application/React-UI-Application/blogapplication from NodeJs terminal and execute below command to start our react project

npm install package.json
npm start

once we run above command a new web page opens in your default browser