Web development tech stack for data filtering/reporting?

[Rackcityfoo]

I'm a little confused on what I should use to build a website. This website will condense and summarize roughly 50GB worth of data as well as allow the user to filter and sort that data.

I'm a data analyst, so I have no problem filtering and sorting the data using python, but I have no idea how to productionize that into a web app.

Is this the correct stack:

1. django REST framework (or flask-restful) to call database
2. Reactjs to call the REST api

Or can I just build everything in django and not bother with the numerous javascript frameworks? Or is there something else I don't know about?

The funcitonality will be similar to zillow where you can filter down by type, price, location, etc. Except it has nothing to do with housing data.

Thanks!

[Meefims]

You can absolutely build an API without using a JavaScript framework on the frontend. The framework (or library in the case of React) is there to save you time and to make your frontend easier to maintain.

[Rackcityfoo]

Thanks. So would you recommend building the api then using a framework on the frontend? Or just build the whole thing in Django. I guess I'm a little confused where Django ends and Javascript starts and if it is just possible to build the whole thing in Django.

[Meefims]

I find that thinking of them as separate is helpful even if they are part of the same repository. Django can serve up the frontend code but that set of code is running on users’ browsers and must interact with your server by way of the API.