drf

Remember when we create a neat compact Docker image for the frontend? Now we are going to do the same thing for the backend. Allowed Hosts Before we start working on the Dockerfile for the backend, we need to take care of one thing. Because we are not going to run the backend app in the Docker in the DEBUG mode, Django will require that the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting is set. This setting is a security measure which prevents certain types of the security attacks. [Read More]

Django Rest Framework Once we have the data in our backend, we want to expose it to be consumed by our React frontend. Django, per se, is a traditional Web framework, it produces the html files, not json documents. There is this amazing library, called Django Rest Framework (DRF), which allows to easily add the ability to add the Rest API to the Django application. At the moment, DRF is not technically a part of Django and must be installed separately [Read More]