mn-48 / django-nextjs-starter-kit

django-nextjs-starter-kit

Django-NextJs

This repo is a django-nextjs web app boiler-plate that is dockerized including Nginx and gunicorn. Django is used as backend and nextjs is used as front-end.

Repo includes

• Django (ORM and micro-controllers)
• NextJS
• GraphQL
• Docker (served in Nginx using gunicorn)

Things needed

Docker must have been installed, in order to use this boiler-plate code. For downloading the docker check this out - docker download

Setting up the boiler-plate

1. Clone this repo

$ git clone https://github.com/yeganathan18/django-nextjs-bioler-plate.git

2. Start the Docker desktop app (mac & windows) and make sure that the docker-engine is started

$ docker info

Using this command check whether the docker engine is running!

3. Shot up the terminal and

$ cd django-nextjs-bioler-plate

Make sure the directory is proper before moving further, it should be django-nextjs-bioler-plate/

4. Build the Docker images

$ docker-compose build

This may take some time to complete

5. Once the docker container is built,

$ docker-compose up

You may see the logs that are running up in the terminal, now the container has been started.

• Step 6: There may be some default migrations that has to be done for the django, so open-up another terminal in the same directory and run the following command.

docker compose exec backend python manage.py migrate

Navigation

Webapp - http://localhost/

Django Admin panel - http://localhost/api/admin

GraphiQL Playground - http://localhost/api/graphql

Note ❗️

This is been dockerized only for the local development and not for the production-ready web app.

Misc

Whether to install a package or use a command in particular container run the following code.

docker compose exec <container-name> <command that need to be executed>

check the directory's readme, inorder to execute basic necessary commands for both django and webapp.

License

MIT