django-webpack-loader VS django-vue-cli-webpack-demo

Django Webpack Loader

Check out https://github.com/django-webpack/django-webpack-loader

About one month ago i started having a lot of doubts on my frontend. At first, instead of decoupling frontend from backend, i decided to use a library called django-webpack-loader that lets me serve webpack from Django templates, so i created a Vue app and served it from Django (i used a simple index.html view). So at this point i basically have a SPA that instead of being decoupled from Django, it's served by Django.

You can do this with Django and nothing else easily or you can use a third party library called Django-Webpack-Loader.

In addition to what's already been said (completely separate frontend & backend; or do a CDN include), I've worked in a codebase that uses django-webpack-loader.

The biggest challenge to using Django with React IMO is getting the right blend of isomorphic rendering down. I don't want to go full SPA with Django as this defeats the purpose of Django IMO. Most parts of the site I want server-rendered, while in stateful parts I want React. So, let's say I have a site with 20 different React "apps" (i.e. stateful components) that I want to distribute amongst my various Django sections (Django "Apps" within the same project). And I want to do that with one webpackconfig. How do I tell my webpack where to put all those react bundles? The answer I've found is django-webpack-loader[1], however as you can see in the Issues section, one of the biggest limitations here is the inability to chunk React (and other issues).

Does anyone have a solution they like for this kind of isomporphic Django problem?

1. https://github.com/owais/django-webpack-loader

Yes it's possible, depends on what you want to do/how involved you want vue to be. you can add vue directly in a script tag if you want super simple(https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/installation.html#Direct-lt-script-gt-Include) or you can get as complex as using vue to to run a SPA and webpack (https://github.com/EugeneDae/django-vue-cli-webpack-demo)

https://github.com/EugeneDae/django-vue-cli-webpack-demo To run this project first start the django server with manage.pyrunserver, then navigate to the client directory, run npm install and then npm run serve. If you navigate to the index page you'll see Vue running on the frontend.

I ended up using this approach for a pretty substantial project and is working out very well ::https://github.com/EugeneDae/django-vue-cli-webpack-demo