Django + SPA (cross origin) Auth

Cookie based authentication, frontend and backend separated, cross origin.

Original Article here

Updated

• Bug with obsolete component solved using --openssl-legacy-provider
• Clon written with Vue3 added.

Getting Started

Open a console for the frontend and another one for the backend. Keep both active to run the project.

Run Django:

$ cd backend
$ python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
(venv)$ pip install -r requirements.txt
(venv)$ python manage.py migrate
(venv)$ python manage.py runserver

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Choose between React or Vue for the frontend.

Run React:

$ cd frontend_react
$ npm install
$ npm start

Test at http://localhost:3000/.

or

Run Vue:

$ cd frontend_vue
$ npm install
$ npm run dev

Test at http://localhost:5173/.