Get hands-on experience in full-stack web development with Python, React, and AWS
Django developers often need to rely on front-end developers to build client-side solution for their web apps. By combining the capabilities of React with Django, this book creates a complete learning path to go from being a backend developer to a full stack developer in no time. This book will help you use React to build state-of-the-art UI layouts and Django to create an immaculate backend.
This book covers the following exciting features:
- Explore how things work differently under the hood in the frontend as well as backend
- Discover how to build an API with Django
- Start from scratch to build an intuitive user interface using React capabilities
- Dockerize and prepare projects for deployment
- Deploy API and UI on various platforms like AWS and Vercel
All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter03.
The code will look like the following:
from rest_framework import viewsets
from rest_framework import filters
class AbstractViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
filter_backends = [filters.OrderingFilter]
ordering_fields = ['updated', 'created']
ordering = ['-updated']
Following is what you need for this book: This book is for Django web developers who want to get started with full-stack development and learn a frontend framework that can be quickly bootstrapped with the backend to build full-stack applications. Familiarity to React and JavaScript would be an added advantage.
With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-16).
| Chapter | Software/Hardware required | OS required |
|---|---|---|
| 1-16 | Python | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux |
| 1-16 | JavaScript | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux |
| 1-16 | PostgreSQL | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux |
| 1-16 | Django | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux |
| 1-16 | React | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux |
| 1-16 | Docker | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux |
We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.
After creating the UserManager and User models, if the migration fails with the following error:
Migration admin.0001_initial is applied before its dependency core_user.0001_initial on database 'default'.
Please try running these commands:
$ sudo su postgres
$ psql
postgres=# DROP DATABASE coredb;
postgres=# CREATE DATABASE coredb;
postgres=# ALTER ROLE core SET client_encoding TO 'utf8';
postgres=# ALTER ROLE core SET default_transaction_isolation TO 'read committed';
postgres=# ALTER ROLE core SET timezone TO 'UTC';
postgres=# ALTER DATABASE coredb OWNER TO core;
postgres=# GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE coredb TO core;
If you already ran the "makemigrations" for core_user, simply run python manage.py migrate
- Page 81 (line 19):
post = serializers.SlugRelatedField(queryset=Post.objects.all(), slug_field='public_id')
def to_representation(self, instance):
rep = super().to_representation(instance)
should be
post = serializers.SlugRelatedField(queryset=Post.objects.all(), slug_field='public_id')
def validate_author(self, value):
if self.context["request"].user != value:
raise ValidationError("You can't create a post for another user.")
return value
def to_representation(self, instance):
rep = super().to_representation(instance)