reactivated VS react-async-component

Though it's not in the main branch, I've POC-ed a lot of it and use it in production on this branch. You can... sort of see the ideas behind it. https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/pull/207

https://www.reactivated.io/documentation/deploying/ https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/blob/main/development/scripts/deploy.sh https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/blob/main/development/Dockerfile

Theoretically, the Dockerfile should "just work"™ with Render.com as well. Right now I focus on fly.io only because their free tier offers PostgreSQL without time limits. Render, I believe, only does so for a period of time.

See here: https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/blob/main/dev...

https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/blob/main/dev...

https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/blob/main/dev...

Shameless plug: If you want seamless SSR with Django logic, but React templates, check out my project at https://www.reactivated.io .

It's like HTMX but uses React, and the JS bits are rendered on the server. You can then hydrate on the client.

The Reactivated docs site itself uses the project: https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/tree/main/web...

Here's one https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/blob/main/website/client/templates/HomePage.tsx

You can use any React library with Reactivated. Here's an example from the site, using react-markdown just like you would anywhere else: https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/blob/91d87e66c61c849895cabcc1ce07574111084c3a/reactivated.io/client/templates/Documentation.tsx

reactivated – Zero-configuration Django and React.

That's exactly what https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated does. It's a work in progress and docs are coming.

But it's the best of both worlds: Django SSR using statically typed JSX.

See for example my blog or business sites (on profile). Both SSRed by Django using React templates.

Then when the client loads, it gracefully "attaches" for dynamic interactive behavior as needed.

By far the biggest pain point is having to run node and python on the server. So I'm working on the best way to do that.

I've spent many years working on django including production setups for 3 different companies. My strong advice is to only use Django for API calls (DRF) and the built in admin UI. Do not use Django for ANY client facing static site rendering.

1. Deploy the React static pages and JS/CSS resources completely separately from Django. Cloudfront/S3 is my personal choice. You will need to tweak the CORS_ORIGIN_WHITELIST and CORS_ALLOW_HEADERS in the django settings but that's relatively easy.

2. Use Gatsy or something similar to help you with static site generation using react. Remember: React is in charge of HTML/JS/CSS of any type and Django should not get involved.

3. Use https://github.com/ctrlplusb/react-async-component or something similar to help break up your SPA so the browser doesn't have to load all of it at once and only loads smaller components on an as needed basis.

Don't mess with webpack and eject unless you have a very specialized need that cannot be addressed with everything out there.