serving-react-app-django.recipe

1) Proxy the requests from :3000 to :8000 Done
2) Install django-cors-headers Done
3) Add 'corsheaders' to INSTALLED_APPS Done
4) Add 'corsheaders.middleware.CorsMiddleware' before 'CommonMiddleware' Done
5) Add CORS_ORIGIN_ALLOW_ALL = True on base settings Done.
6) Make Django load the bundles as static files with 'str(ROOT_DIR.path('frontend', 'build', 'static'))' Done
7) Create a views.py file on 'nomadgram' folder. Done
6) Create ReactAppView that reads the file. Done
7) Add the ReactAppView as a URL Done


urls.py: 
from nomadgram import views
url(r'^', views.ReactAppView.as_view()),











from django.views.generic import View
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.conf import settings
import os


class ReactAppView(View):

    def get(self, request):
        try:
            with open(os.path.join(str(settings.ROOT_DIR), 'frontend', 'build', 'index.html')) as file:
                return HttpResponse(file.read())

        except:
            return HttpResponse(
                """
                index.html not found ! build your React app !!
                """,
                status=501,
            )