From the course: Building React and Django Apps

Running the React and Django development servers

From the course: Building React and Django Apps

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Running the React and Django development servers

- [Instructor] To run the Django development server we have to activate the Python virtual environment. Then we have to enter the project directory and run the server. In the browser, you can see that Django is running and you can see that we have access to the admin. For the React development server to work we first have to add the proxy configuration to package.json. On the command line we enter the front end directory and simply type in npm start to start the React development server. It will automatically launch a new browser window pointing to your React app.

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