CTC DRP (Django React Postgres) Stack

Getting Started

1. Install Homebrew (If you're on Windows, I'm sorry)

2. Clone this repository git clone git@github.com:ctcusc/django-react-boilerplate.git

3. cd into the folder and run ./install.sh

4. Start the server with ./start.sh

5. See the server live on localhost:8000

6. Run tail -f django to see the Django logs or tail -f webpack to see the Webpack logs

Using Supervisord

Supervisord allows us to run and "supervise" multiple processes at the same time. This is essential as we need to run both a Django and Webpack (Frontend) server, along with nginx to proxy them.

start.sh should put you in the Supervisor Control Panel, but if you ever accidentally exit the CLI, running supervisorctl should put you back in.

NOTE: If you exit the Supervisor Control Panel, it will still be running on your computer. You need to actually shutdown your control panel in order to shut the server off

Supervisor Control Panel

You can run the following commands on current processes:

• status will list the status of all the processes (State, Running Time, Process ID)
• start <name or all> will start a given process (or all if you type all)
• stop <name or all> will stop a given process (or all)
• restart <name or all> will restart a given process
• shutdown will shutdown the entire supervisord process (YOU NEED TO DO THIS TO QUIT THE SERVER)
• tail -f <name> will show you the live logs of a given process
• tail -100 <name> will show you the last 100 bytes of a given process (100 can be any number)

If you want to see the full logs of a process, go to /logs/ and look for the log of the process you want to examine.

Backend

Make sure that you are in /server if you need to run ./start.sh, the server-start script.

• We will be building out our backend RESTful API using Django, a Python web framework

  • The link below will take you to the Django documentation for running commands in the terminal
  • Django CLI Commands

• Top-level routes are located under /server/server/urls.py and /server/server/views.py

• The routes that you will be working with are located under /server/social_network/urls.py and /server/social_network/views.py

• Database models are located under /server/social_network/models.py

  • Currently limited to Profiles, Posts, and Votes
  • Serializers to convert instances of these models to JSON are located under /server/social_network/serializers.py

Frontend

Dependency Management

We are using Yarn, Facebook's proprietary package managing tool. We are using it in place of NPM because it has better support for versionining and dependency control.

NOTE: DO NOT RUN npm install

• yarn install: installs all dependencies in the package.json file
• yarn add <package-name>: installs the given package and adds it to the yarn.lock file
• yarn list: lists all of the installed packages
• yarn remove <package-name>: removes the package from your node_modules and also your yarn.lock file.
• Documentation: https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/

Folder Structure

All of our frontend files are located in the /client folder. This folder also contains the yarn.lock file and package.json, so perform all node package management in this directory.

We will be using CSS modules for our styling. All GLOBAL styles should be kept under the /styles folder.

Our app is separated into "domains" with the following folder structure: - Dumb Components live in <domain-name>/components - Smart Containers live in <domain-name>/scenes - Reducers & Actions live in <domain-name>/