Local Development & Debugging#

Running the local development servers#

This app uses webpack to compile/transpile assets. The app is equipped to be served from 127.0.0.1:8000 or localhost:8000.

First run the python server:

./manage.py runserver_plus

Then in a new tab, run the vite server:

npm run dev

To access a python shell pre-populated with Django models and local env:

./manage.py shell_plus

To add a breakpoint in your python code, add the following code to your .bashrc or .zshrc:

export PYTHONBREAKPOINT="pudb.set_trace"

Then add the following to your python code:

breakpoint()

If the above fails or you prefer a more immediate solution, you can add the following to your code:

import pudb; pu.db