I've a django backend and angular frontend, on my local machine to use both together, I've to run both server's using ng serve and python manage.py runserver but now I'm planning to deploy it to heroku and I've no idea how will it work, also is there any official guide for using django and angular together.
P.S. - I'm using django-rest-framework for making api calls from frontend to backend.
i never do it before but i think you can do it separately
deploy your django: Heroku django
then deploy your angular app Heroku angular
change your base url to heroku urls
i hope that it would help you :D
I've developed Django as backend with ReactJS as frontend being served on Django server (127.0.0.1:8000) by putting frontend folder inside backend folder and using static files with path to build/static of frontend in settings.py. So I'm able to run reactjs app on localhost:8000. That's fine.
Now question is if it's possible to dockerize only Django backend, which will have everything including frontend contents and run single docker container opening react js app? Or shall I dockerize frontend as well separately?
Looking forward to your inputs.
Regards
Please note that I've also done with both backend and frontend running separately on 2 servers (localhost:8000 and localhost:3000), used docker-compose to build 2 dockerfiles and them talking each other. So my above q is about possibility to dockerize only backend as a single container image which has frontend static files inside.
Maybe anybody know easy and work solution for deploying django site on Windows machine with Nginx reverse proxy server? I can't find WSGI module, that have support in Windows.
I have recently switched to Django for a web app I'm developing and I followed the instructions at Heroku for getting a Django app running on Heroku. I have a virtual environment in which my app is developed and I use git for version control and to push to Heroku. The link above suggests that I intall gunicorn:
The examples above used the default HTTP server for Django. For
production apps, you may wish to use a more production-ready embedded
webserver, such as Tornado, gevent’s WSGI server, or Gunicorn.
They then walk the user through installing Gunicorn.
My question is: what problems might I run into if I skip this step and just stay with the default? What benefits will Gunicorn give me?
Gunicorn is production ready and really easy to use. I use it for my websites. You usually should run it via a reverse proxy like Nginx. I'm not sure what Heroku is using. You really should try it.
In my experience it's much easier to use and configure than apache & mod_wsgi, and the other similar setups.
edit/update:
As a summary of the comments below, Heroku already uses Nginx as a reverse proxy
Much better performance, and probably better security and stability, too. Django's development web server (which is used by Heroku by default) isn't really designed to serve production applications.
django's server, is a development server . It is light weigh and easy to use but should not be used in production because it is not production ready. it cannot handle many requests. This link offers a comparison between gunicorn, uwsgi and django's development server.
I want to deploy my django application using CherryPy. But I am looking for a pluggable apps instead of a scripts (which I'll just deploy it via apache)
Any good django apps that do that?
Thanks,
James
django-cpserver