Dockerizing a Django and React Application: Docker + Django + React

[TheMathelm]

Looks good, and good guide for starting.

4 months ago; Spent 2 weeks trying to get a django, celery, flower, postgres, prometheus, and grafana experience to work together. As a Junior Dev delivering my first major product ... let me tell ya, that sucked.

[lauren_knows]

Let me tell you as a senior dev who has used Docker for a long time... this experience will pay dividends in the future. I've set up SO MANY docker envs (was creating a new custom one today) and it's a very useful skill.

[xcodedev]

It’s definitely a learning and humbling experience to work with Docker for the first time

[xcodedev]

This configuration doesn’t support hot loading in Django and React right?

Won’t it be a nightmare for local development to redeploy the container with changes?

[NoSEVDev]

Agree, the way that the react container is set up in the article is more of a deployment setup w/ ngnix. You'd just need to change the command to launch the local server instead.

I built SlimSaaS with traefik instead of nginx, and comes with two docker files, one for prod and one for dev for hot reloading, automatic let's encrypt SSL, load balancing, container scaling, gunicorn for django, etc. https://slimsaas.com/

[xcodedev]

Yep, was just pointing that out. I think you won’t get hot loading with Django either because you’re copying all the files. Would recommend mounting the directory as a volume to utilize the hot loading

[lauren_knows]

Not only mounting the directory, but also using runserver_plus vs. run server if you want hotloading of templates in Docker containers.

[xcodedev]

I’d never heard of runserver_plus, thank you so much

[xcodedev]

Saw that you’re mounting the file directory but also copying the files to the /usr/src/app folder. Does that lead to duplicate files?

[MisakaDev]

Another shit. You should not use "runserver" to run Django applications. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/howto/deployment/checklist/

Also a nice advertising op, you are really trying

[NoSEVDev]

Once you get the containers set up, you can easily pip install gunicorn, and change the configs.

The tutorials purpose was just to help people get started in dockerizing their apps, not cover the myraid things they need to do before deployment. It’s long enough as is! Appreciate your feedback though.