AIaiisahik·Dec 23, 2020
I've spent many years working on django including production setups for 3 different companies. My strong advice is to only use Django for API calls (DRF) and the built in admin UI. Do not use Django for ANY client facing static site rendering.
1. Deploy the React static pages and JS/CSS resources completely separately from Django. Cloudfront/S3 is my personal choice. You will need to tweak the CORS_ORIGIN_WHITELIST and CORS_ALLOW_HEADERS in the django settings but that's relatively easy.
2. Use Gatsy or something similar to help you with static site generation using react. Remember: React is in charge of HTML/JS/CSS of any type and Django should not get involved.
3. Use https://github.com/ctrlplusb/react-async-component or something similar to help break up your SPA so the browser doesn't have to load all of it at once and only loads smal
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Don't mess with webpack and eject unless you have a very specialized need that cannot be addressed with everything out there.