Show Fly Community: Zero-config Django and React on Fly

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Hey everyone,

I wanted to showcase my project that uses Fly. Thanks to the generous free tier, people can try a fully functional Django+React website with minimal hassle.

https://www.reactivated.io

As for the Fly specific parts, see here: Deploying | Reactivated

I was inspired to post this when I read Running Reproducible Rust: A Fly and Nix Love Story . Reactivated used Nix heavily as well.

Many thanks to the Fly team for helping me diagnose deployment issues. Hopefully this project encourages more people to use Fly.

Silvio

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Wow this is super cool. Nice work. @jsierles has been working on native nix builds so we might have some fun stuff for you to try soon. :slight_smile:

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Cool! That’s a clever approach to bootstrapping nix-shell. You can check out progress on our nix integrations here. Currently it only supports Rails, but it’s split up into modules so we can add more, like Python/Django. We’d love to get more modules in.

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Sweeet writeup! (And I’m going to reread your page on Nix.)

@Silvio_Gutierrez do you have a twitter handle that you’d like mentioned if we tweet?

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Thanks!

Sure, https://twitter.com/silviogutierrez though it’s… nearly empty. Maybe this will kickstart my Twitter career.

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Thanks! I need Python and Node, so long as those two are supported, things should Just Work™.

As for the nix-shell approach, the isolated Postgres instance (not used when deployed on Fly) was some of my best and ugliest work at the same time.

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I’m not trying to railroad you! We’ll still tweet with a link to your website if you prefer not to have a Twitter career! :wink:

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@catflydotio no problem. I actually just updated the profile to make it more presentable. It’s a good way to disseminate updates anyway. So I take this as a sign.

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@Silvio_Gutierrez Flydotio has tweeted you. :smile: