Can it somehow itself, serve say a react or svelte app? I know I can build a rest api using django, serve it on a port, and build a frontend app and serve it on another port communicating over the api with the server, but I want them both to be served by django and be on the same port if possible (I know I can proxy the api address and port so I don't need to specify the port each time I want to call the api, that's beside the point)
#Can django directly serve a frontend application that was built using a framework
grave pond
tacit iron
Yes. build the JS files and serve them as django static files
grave pond
Like how? You mean like for react for example I use babel and then serve the result?
tacit iron
Yep, build the files so they end in a directory that will be collected using collectstatic then django will serve them as normal
grave pond
And that way I won't lose any functionality for the frontend app right? Sorry I haven't done this before, I have a good idea how to approach it but no experience, just making sure
tacit iron
At this point I would say try it out. use version control so you can easily revert back to a known state. this is part of learning, experiment and try it out
grave pond
Alright, thank you will try it
@tacit iron Oh btw (sorry for the tag) I know it's probably dpendant on my usage but generally speaking is that how it's done in production as well or do prople just server them separately?
tacit iron
It depends... both are valid, but serving via Django is going to be a simpler deployment strategy
grave pond
So I'm not doing something that's uncommon or anything :D