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How to setup Django w/ React frontend on App Platform?

Posted on March 17, 2021
Bryan Caragay

By Bryan Caragay

iOS Developer

Connected Tutorial(This question is a follow-up to this tutorial):

How To Deploy a Django App on App Platform

As I was following the tutorial on deploying Django to AP, the tutorial was clear on how to deploy Django, but i’m only using Django as my backend. When I deploy React to “/”, that means Django has to live elsewhere (like “/app”), which then breaks things like Django admin (django doesn’t like the new path /app/admin).

Is there a guide somewhere on this process?



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Hi! So Step 5 in the tutorial shows you how to deploy your static files so that the Django admin CSS will still work. Did this step work for you?

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