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Introduction

This project is archived, please get the latest version of the source code from my book Build SPA with React and Wagtail

Demo

The demo is also online if you want to check.

Objectives

This book will teach you how to build a SPA (single-page application) using React and Wagtail CMS.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  1. Understand Docker and use Docker Compose to do development
  2. Create blog models to work with Wagtail.
  3. Learn how to write serializer for Django models.
  4. Build a REST API for Wagtail CMS
  5. Use the factory package to help create test data
  6. Test the REST API and generate test coverage report
  7. Build a React app from create-react-app
  8. Learn React Function Component, and React hooks.
  9. Use Tailwind CSS to build clean and responsive UI.
  10. Understand React router
  11. Make React app work with Wagtail preview
  12. Build comment system based on django-contrib-comments which support Generic Relations
  13. Use Tribute.js to add Mention and Emoji support to the comment form.
  14. Learn to use SWR to build lazy load comment list.
  15. Test React component using Jest and @testing-library family of packages.
  16. Deploy the production app to DigitalOcean

Tech

  • Python 3.8
  • Django 3.2
  • Wagtail 2.14
  • Node 14
  • Tailwind CSS
  • React 17
  • React Router
  • Jest

How to run on local

Edit /etc/hosts

Below command is for Mac, but you can ask Google for help if you use other OS.

$ sudo vi /etc/hosts

# add to the bottom
127.0.0.1 api.local.test

# clear DNS cache
$ sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder 
$ ping www.local.test

Backend API

You can use code below to run dev application on your local env.

You need Docker and Docker Compose and you can install it here Get Docker

$ git clone https://github.com/AccordBox/wagtail-react-blog react_wagtail
$ cd react_wagtail
$ docker-compose up --build

Now open a new terminal to import data and change password.

$ docker-compose exec web python manage.py load_initial_data
# change password for admin
$ docker-compose exec web python manage.py changepassword admin

Now you can check on

React

It is recommended to use nvm to install node on your local env.

$ node -v
v14.17.4
$ cd frontend
$ npm install -g yarn
$ yarn -v
1.22.11
$ yarn install
$ yarn start

Now you can check on