I actually created a fullstack todo app with django as backend and react as frontend. The frontend is working perfectly fine, you can that here -> https://ym-todo-application.herokuapp.com. But somehow my application cannot connect to the django backend, also on inspecting on browser i saw this error -> GET http://localhost:8000/api/todos/ net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED.
Containing lot of files and code so i pushed them on bitbucket to make it easier to debug. here's the link https://bitbucket.org/Yash-Marmat/todo-app-fullstack/src/master/.
Thanks in advance.
You need to change the REST API server address. The localhost:8000 is the server address used in the development.
What is more, I see in your code that each time you write the request you have hard-coded server URL. You don't need to do this. You can set the server address by setting baseURL:
import axios from "axios";
if (window.location.origin === "http://localhost:3000") {
axios.defaults.baseURL = "http://127.0.0.1:8000"; // development address
} else {
axios.defaults.baseURL = window.location.origin; // production address
}
Then in the request, you only write the endpoint address, example:
axios.put(`/api/todos/${item.id}/`, item)
Please see my article Docker-Compose for Django and React with Nginx reverse-proxy and Let's Encrypt certificate for more details about Django and React deployment.
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I'm working on a MERN-stack project using separated repositories (backend & frontend), In development environment, I was using "proxy" to connect the server API with react, and it was working perfectly.
//package.json in react
{
...
"proxy": "http://localhost:8000/",
...
}
But when I switched to production environment and replaced the proxy value with the deployed link, "proxy" is no longer supported. I did a search about it and I figured out that it's only for development env, and I tried several solutions found there on the internet but with no luck!
By the way, I'm deploying the backend with Heroku, and the frontend with Netlify. Right now, both of them are deployed without any error, but there is no connection between the backend and frontend.
In production we can't use (proxy).. instead we can set a variable in the frontend for the backend URL, and vise versa.
Let's start with backend configurations:
app.use(cors({
origin: "frontend_URL",
credentials: true
}));
Now, let's see the frontend config:
set a variable anywhere you prefer:
export const API_URL = "URL";
in the file where you call your API:
import axios from "axios";
import { API_URL } from "./your/path";
axios.defaults.withCredentials = true;
axios.get(`${API_URL}/your/route`);
and now you are ready to deploy...
TLDR: React app interfaces properly with Flask API on PythonAnywhere when hosted locally but not when a static build is hosted on Netlify. Perhaps the proxy information is missing from the build?
EDIT 1:
Here are the errors in the browser console:
I've created a Flask API that pulls machine learning models from Amazon S3 and returns predictions on data input from POST requests. I've put this API on PythonAnywhere.
I've also created a React frontend which allows me to input data, submit it, and then receive the prediction. When I host this app locally, it behaves appropriately (i.e. connecting to the Flask app on PythonAnywhere, loading the models properly, and returning the predictions).
I've tried deploying a static build of the React app on Netlify. It behaves as expected, except for anything that requires interacting with the Flask App. I have a button for testing that simply calls the Flask app in a GET request, and even this is throwing a 404 error.
I checked the error and server logs on PythonAnywhere and see nothing. The only thing I can thik of is that my proxy which lists the domain of the PythonAnywhere app in my package.json file is for some reason unincluded in the build, but I don't know why this would be the case.
Has anyone else run into a similar issue or know how I can check to see if the proxy information is included in the static build? Thanks in advance!
Thanks to #Glenn for the help.
Solution:
I realized (embarrassingly late) that the requests were not going to the right address, as can be seen in the browser console error above. I was using a proxy during development, so the netlify app was calling itself rather than the pythonanywhere API. I simply went into my react code and edited the paths to pythonanywhere. E.g.
onClick={ async () => {
const response = await fetch("/get", {...}}
became
onClick={ async () => {
const response = await fetch("https://username.pythonanywhere.com/get", {...}}
As #Glenn mentioned, there may have been a CORS issue as well, so in my flask application I utilized flask_cors. I can't say for sure that this was necessary given that I didn't test removing it after the fetch addresses had changed, but I suspect that it is necessary.
Hopefully this can help someone else
I am building a react website with firebase functions backend.
I'm using firebase serve to locally host the node.js backend that I connect to my react code through express API endpoints, and I am using react-scripts start to test my react frontend app.
all my get requests in my react app use /some endpoint to communicate with my firebase localserver. But they are running on different ports. firebase serves it on localhost:5000 while react live server hosts it at localhost:3000.
I tried many things and couldn't get any useful way to make this work. I at last added my react project as a subfolder in my firebase project and made the hosting public path at firebase.json to my react build directory. It works now but I always have to run npm run build on my react app on every change, to make it compile my app into the build directory, which is painfully slow.
What is the proper way to do this? debug react app and firebase backend together.
I finally enabled cross-origin-requests on my server using cors module
Serverside code
const cors = require("cors");
app.get("/test", (req, res) => {
return cors()(req, res, async () => {
res.send("working...");
});
});
Serverside code
And then adding a simple config file in the react side, to switch between debugging and deployed testing really helped.
config.js
var domain = "";
// domain = "http://localhost:5000";
export {domain}
then whenever I use apis in react, I simply comment/uncomment the second line to switch between local and deployed testing.
Then whenever I use APIs, I append `domain` before every url in all references, eg fetch requests
import { domain } from "config.js";
fetch(domain + "/int-search", ...
Then it worked fine running both the firebase backend and the react application on localhost, using firebase serve and npm start for my react app.
I have an app with django backend and react frontend. When testing and coding i run my django app on local server 127.0.0.1:8000 and connecting all my react requests to those endpoints. However in production my django app run on a different ip address and everytime i changed my code and push my reactjs app to production server i have to change all the endpoints ip's.
What is the best way to handle it? (as a source control i use git i do not know if it makes any differences)
I set the axios.defaults.baseURL depending on the window.location.origin. Here is my setting:
if (window.location.origin === "http://localhost:3000") {
axios.defaults.baseURL = "http://127.0.0.1:8000";
} else {
axios.defaults.baseURL = window.location.origin;
}
The above config is from my article Docker-Compose for Django and React with Nginx reverse-proxy and Let's Encrypt certificate. I'm serving React with nginx, and have reverse-proxy to Django (also in nginx), that's why for production setting I'm just using the same address. In the case of development, I have REST API at 127.0.0.1:8000.
I prefer this dynamic setting than settin env files because I don't need to set any environment variables.
I have configured create-react-app to use https in my local development environment. I would now like to convert my React application to a progressive web app and I plan to use Lighthouse to check my status. I am running Lighthouse as a Chrome plugin, but I am having trouble with the part when it is checking if my HTTP requests are redirected to HTTPS. They are not.
I have been crawling through my node_modules and I have taken a look at webpack-dev-server that is bundled with create-react-app. I have tried to make some changes, but the best I have managed so far is that I have gotten "Too many redirects".
TL;DR: How can I configure create-react-app to redirect all requests from http to https on my local dev environment?
Here's the code from my create-react-app if you are having trouble with just the redirect part. I'm doing it manually since Heroku doesn't automatically handle it. But this actually needs to be handled on the server because it makes the app visibly load twice if it has to redirect to http. But for now, I'm redirecting in the constructor of my App component.
constructor(props, context) {
const url = window.location.origin
if (!url.includes('localhost') && !url.includes('https')) {
window.location = `https:${url.split(':'))[1]}`
}
}
For your purposes, you'd just need to take out the localhost part and make the new url a little differently (because of the port).
I'm using ramda here, but lodash also has a tail function you can use.
import { tail } from 'ramda
...
constructor(props, context) {
const url = window.location.origin
if (!url.includes('https')) {
window.location = `https:${tail(url.split(':')).join(':')}`
}
}
#Fmacs, for redirection of HTTP traffic to HTTPS, instead of using local dev-server, deploy your app on any environment like Heroku or Firebase. Firebase is very simple. I see that you also have other issues running the create-react-app that you created. I have explained how to do this in simple steps in a blog post with sample code in GitHub. Please refer to: http://softwaredevelopercentral.blogspot.com/2019/10/react-pwa-tutorial.html