Full Stack Django and React: Get hands-on experience in full-stack web development with Python, React, and AWS

Build your full stack applications from scratch by reaping the full potential and powerful features of modern frameworks - Django and React
Key Features

Explore the advanced features of – popular frameworks like Django and React by working on hands-on projects
Launch your career as a full-stack Python web developer with this step-by-step guide
Learn to deploy complete web applications to AWS

Book Description

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 web development book will help you discover the full potential of combining the dual power of the two most popular frameworks - React and Django. You’ll build full-stack applications including RESTful API in the backend and an intuitive frontend while exploring the advanced features of both frameworks. You’ll also explore how the dynamic functionality of the React framework can be used to build your frontend systems and how the ORM layer of Django helps in simplifying the database interactions. This will in turn boost the development process for building the backend and facilitate the building of full-stack applications.

By the end of the book, you will be able to create a dynamic full-stack app starting from scratch on your own.
What you will learn

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

Who This Book Is For

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.
Table of Contents

Creating a Django project
Authentication and Authorization using JWT
Social media post management
Adding comments to Social Media Posts
Testing the REST API
Creating a project with React
Building Login and Registration forms
Social Media posts
Post comments
User Profiles
Deployment basics: CI/CD, Github, Docker & Environment variables
Deployment Basics: Git, GitHub, and AWS
Dockerize the Django Project
Deploy your React App on Vercel
Performance and Security
Performance, Optimization, and Security