2610 Django + Vite Starting Point

This project serves as a starting point you to use as a starting point for Django applications that use Vite as the asset server for development. You are welcome to us this project for all of your assignments beginning with Module 5.

Strategy

This application is a hybrid MPA and SPA. It reuses all of the login stuff that we did at the end of module 3 - there is a separate page for signup/signin. Once a user is logged in they are redirected to the / view which then renders the SPA application created using React and Vite.

Initial Setup

1. Change the name property in the pyproject.toml file to something unique to your project.
2. In the root directory, install the Python dependencies poetry install
3. In the client directory, install the javascript dependencies npm install
4. In the _server directory, create a new file called .env
5. Copy the contents of _server/.env.example into the newly created .env file.
6. Activate the poetry env poetry shell
7. In the _server directory, run the migrations python manage.py migrate

Running the application

1. In the client directory run npm run dev
2. In the _server directory (with your poetry env activated) run python manage.py runserver
3. Visit your application at http://localhost:8000

Make sure to add a .env file to root of the _server folder.

Then point the ASSET_URL to localhost:5173. This will prevent any possible headaches from favicon.io throwing possible errors in django.