how do get categories working? about react-tutorial HOT 3 CLOSED

Hello @flacoman91, this is really strange. Have you added categories and subcategories through the django-admin? Here's what I did right now (and everything worked ok):

I use the latest version from master (I have activated a virtualenv first):

git fetch origin
git merge origin/master

then I install all deps for python and js

npm install
pip install -r requirements.txt

then create a new database and a superuser

del db.sqlite3
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py createsuperuser

Then run the python dev server

python manage.py runserver

and from a different command line I run

npm run watch

to start watchify so it compiles my JS assets.

Now I visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin, login with my superuser credentials and add a bunch of categories and subcategories. Maybe you forgot to do that? From what I see, the initial-simpler versions (for example react-only) were using hard-coded categories (https://github.com/spapas/react-tutorial/blob/react-only/books/models.py) so you didn't need to visit the django-admin to add them yourself.

Finally, I can go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ and everything is working fine. Can you try it again? Do you see any errors in your javascript console or in command line?

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So sorry about that. I'm just learning react and have never used django.
I didn't know I had to create a user and populate the data manually.
That was the steps that I was missing.

Awesome tutorial and thank you very much for sharing this!

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No problem I should have mentioned that in the readme. I totally recommend django, in my opinion it's the best server side framework today.

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