Django Rest Framework+React app - only showing a blank page, browser can't find react frontend's static files

Question

Have finished and built a todo app using the DRF and React. However when I run the app on the local server all I can see is a blank page and these errors on the console:

127.0.0.1/:1 GET http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/css/main.f160e951.chunk.css net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found)

127.0.0.1/:1 GET http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/js/2.9db42ba3.chunk.js net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found)

127.0.0.1/:1 GET http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/js/main.77fbf7b1.chunk.js net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found)

Not sure why the front end static files can't be found, can anyone help?

App structure/tree

settings.py:

import os
from pathlib import Path

# Build paths inside the project like this: BASE_DIR / 'subdir'.
BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent



# Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/howto/deployment/checklist/

# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
SECRET_KEY = 'dx%a3t6x5tu)k9h16arn@r+^#qticx%+jm9@_ug%!u@kqhc3bp'

# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
DEBUG = True
ALLOWED_HOSTS = []


# Application definition

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'api.apps.ApiConfig',
    'rest_framework',

    'corsheaders',
]

MIDDLEWARE = [
    'corsheaders.middleware.CorsMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
]

ROOT_URLCONF = 'todo_drf.urls'

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [
            os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'frontend_react/build'),
        ],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    },
]

WSGI_APPLICATION = 'todo_drf.wsgi.application'

# Database
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/settings/#databases

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': BASE_DIR / 'db.sqlite3',
    }
}

# Password validation
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/settings/#auth-password-validators

AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
    },
]


# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/topics/i18n/

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = True


# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/howto/static-files/

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

STATICFILES_DIR = [
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'frontend_react/build/static'),
]



CORS_ORIGIN_WHITELIST = [

    "http://localhost:3000",
]

# CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINS - alternative but didn't work
r code here

Project's url patterns:

urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('api/',include('api.urls')),
path('api-auth/', include('rest_framework.urls')),
path('',TemplateView.as_view(template_name='index.html')),

]

The error in the console says the source is this build/index.html file, here are its contents:


React App

The src/index.js file:

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import './index.css';
import App from './App.js';
import './App.css';
import reportWebVitals from './reportWebVitals';

ReactDOM.render(
  
    
  ,
  document.getElementById('root')
);

// If you want to start measuring performance in your app, pass a function
// to log results (for example: reportWebVitals(console.log))
// or send to an analytics endpoint. 
reportWebVitals();

The public/index.html file:

Would be grateful for any suggestions, thank you.

jem4789 · Accepted Answer

In case this helps anyone, I'd typed STATICFILES_DIR instead of STATICFILES_DIRS, it's working now.

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