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by mrdrozdov 3775 days ago
Silly question, but can't you run Django to serve your backend API, and Webpack to serve your static assets including javascript, then use an http proxy like Nginx to serve them under the same url?
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well for development that's a good idea. For production you don't want to have webpack serving anything, you want it compiled, right?
That's what I do. Webpack compiles to the static/ dir and Django serves the static files in that dir. I don't know how/why you would do it otherwise.
For fast development iterations, running webpack's own web server is used for development.

Where django would instead load a custom JS endpoint in development, and use the compiled file for production.

Webpack static compile each time is just way to slow— I've seen it take 60+seconds to compile.