$ cd django-react-boilerplate

Conda environment is used and the dependencies are shown in requirements.txt.

1. Create conda environment, in my case, my environment name is django_react_test_env.

$ conda create -n django_react_test_env python=3.7
$ conda activate django_react_test_env

2. Install dependencies.

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

$ python manage.py runserver

1. Enter your username at http://127.0.0.1:8000/.
2. See your username at http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/data/.

1. Navigate to the django-react-boilerplate directory.

$ cd django-react-boilerplate

2. You may need to run the following lines once.

$ python manage.py makemigrations
$ python manage.py migrate --run-syncdb

or

$ python manage.py makemigrations
$ python manage.py migrate

Whenever you start the server, run the following line to start the development server at 127.0.0.1:8000.

$ python manage.py runserver

When you only change python codes, you do not need to restart the server every time since django offers hot-reload.

3. Whenever you change your frontend codes such as index.js and index.css, run the following line.

$ yarn build

4. If you are only developing frontend codes. You can use hot-reload. It is suggested to run the following line to start another development server at localhost:3000. Remember that this server only contains frontend codes.