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Where to run FastAPI backend, and how to connect to it with JavaScript running on a React App in a static site?
- Posted on June 26, 2024
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Asked by tathyagarg
I have a backend written in Python with FastAPI - which handles some database stuff - but am not sure where I’m supposed to run it.
I also have a ReactJS frontend, which sends a request to my backend when a certain function is called.
I’m not sure how to link the two. During development, to link them, I simply ran the backend on 127.0.0.1:5000, and added a proxy of “localhost:5000” to my ReactJS package.json file.
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Hi there,
What you could do here is to use the DigitalOcean App Platform:
First you will start by deploying your React app as a static component as described in this post here:
After that, you can deploy your FastAPI as a web service component to the same app. That way you will have two separate components both under the same app:
For your backend app, you could set its route to something like
/apiand then you will be able to call that/apiroute from your React frontend service.If your backend service needs a database, you could also add a database service to that app as described here:
Here is a quick video that shows how you could do that but with a Laravel backend instead:
Hope that this helps!
- Bobby