docker-django-drw-react-tsx-rust-webgl

A slightly opinionated local dev full stack template using docker-compose with Django backend and React frontend; all served behind NGINX. Keeping the full stack in one repo for ease of use. Composed of ideas from multiple tutorials, forum threads and official docs. Nothing original here.

Main Frameworks/Libraries/Packages

Please see requirements.txt, package.json, Cargo.toml for full details.

Django

• Django v3 series
• Django Rest Framework
• Django Rest Framework Simple JWT
• PyTest

React

• Create React App
• Node dev server via Docker LTS alpine image
• Hot reload
• TypeScript/ESlint with very opinionated rules
• SASS support
• WebAssembly support
• Integration with the Rust-Wasm module

Postgress

• Docker v12.0 alpine image

Ngnix

• Docker stable alpine
• See conf for details. Serves Django's static and media files as well.

Rust

• Compilation on code change straight to WASM with all type definitions
• Rust 2018 edition
• wasm-bindgen for WEB APIs

Notes

Django

• One app created/installed called core
• Custom user stubbed out in the Core app. No additional fields. Just a blank class that inherets AbstractUser. core.User is assigned as AUTH_USER_MODEL
• SimpleJWT is installed but not used.

React

• To mark a css file as a module use the syntax of import style from "styleFile.module.scss"

Fork or Template

Feel free to fork at will but it may be handier as template. The following are the steps I had in mind for using it as a project template:

1. Create a new repo on GitHub without ReadMe
2. On your local dev machine, and in your preferred parent directory:

$> git clone https://github.com/cglusky/docker-django-react.git <new-local-repo-dir>
$> cd <new-local-repo-dir>
$> git remote set-url origin <url-new-remote-repo-created-in-step-1>
$> git push -u origin master

Edit And Rename .env-example

All services expect to read env variables from .env.dev file. Please make sure you review the example and change the name to env.dev. AND that your gitignore handles env files before you commit super secret stuff to a public repo.

Useful Commands

Build containers. Add -up flag to bring services up after build.

$> docker-compose build

Bring containers up. Add -d flag to run output detached from current shell.

$> docker-compose up

Bring containers down. Add -v flag to also delete named volumes

$> docker-compose down

View logs by service name.

$> docker-compose logs <service-name>

Enter shell for specified container (must be running)

$> docker exec -it <container-name> sh

Containers, Services and Ports

Container	Service	Host Port	Docker Port
dev-django	django	8001	8000
dev-react	react	3001	3000
dev-db	db	5432	5432
dev-nginx	nginx	8080	80
dev-rust	rust

Why NGINX for local dev

Please make all requests from your browser through http://localhost:8080 and NGINX will happily redirect the request and proxy all your services so your browser thinks it's all one and the same protocol/domain/port == CORS bliss.

How to start developing in VSCode

1. Install the Docker extensions and Remote container development extensions
2. Install Docker and docker-compose
3. Start the containers with docker-compose up
4. Open the Docker extension sidebar
5. Right click on the container you want to do development in
6. Select Attach Visual Studio Code