By tathyagarg
I have a react app running as a static app. While working on this project in the development phase, I ran my FastAPI backend like this: uvicorn.run(app, host='127.0.0.1', port=5000), and added a "proxy": "http://localhost:5000" to my React app’s package.json file.
I’m unsure of where I’m supposed to run this backend, and how to make requests to it with my Javascript. Currently, I’m trying to send requests with the fetch API like this: fetch("endpoint_name", requestData). Is this correct? If not, what do I change?
Note: The backend Python does have to do some database work with MySQL
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Hi there,
What you could do here is to use the DigitalOcean App Platform:
First you will start by deploying your React app as a static component as described in this post here:
After that, you can deploy your FastAPI as a web service component to the same app. That way you will have two separate components both under the same app:
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/how-to/manage-components/
For your backend app, you could set its route to something like /api and then you will be able to call that /api route from your React frontend service.
If your backend service needs a database, you could also add a database service to that app as described here:
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/how-to/manage-databases/
Here is a quick video that shows how you could do that but with a Laravel backend instead:
Hope that this helps!
- Bobby
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