javascript - react routing and django url conflict

Question

I am using reactjs as a frontend and django as backend. React router is used for routing. When i refresh the page that has routed by react router, i get django 404 Page Not Found error. If i refresh the homepage, i dont get any such error because the homepage is rendered by django template too using its url.

Do i have to configure that in the webpack? My project structure is i have seperated django and reactjs. I have created a folder as frontend where reactjs file resides.

UPDATE

homepage template has all the link for routes like addrestaurant.

my webpack.config file

const path = require("path");
if(!process.env.NODE_ENV) {
    process.env.NODE_ENV = 'development';
}

module.exports = {
  entry: [
    './src/index.js'
  ],
  output: {
    path: path.join("../app/static/build/", "js"),
    filename: "app.js",
    publicPath: "../app/static/build/"
  },
  devtoo: 'source-map',
  debug: true,
  module: {
    loaders: [{
      exclude: /node_modules/,
      loader: 'babel',
      query: {
        presets: ['react', 'es2015', 'stage-1']
      }
    },
    {test: /.(jpe?g|png|gif|svg)$/i, loader: "url-loader?name=images/[name].[ext]"},
    ]
  },
  resolve: {
    extensions: ['', '.js', '.jsx']
  },
  devServer: {
    historyApiFallback: true,
    contentBase: './'
  }
};

urls.py

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^', views.home, name="homePage"),
    url(r'^(?:.*)/?$', views.home),
]

home.html

{% extends 'base.html' %}

{% block title %} Foodie | Homepage {% endblock title%}

{% block content %}
  <div class="homepage">
  </div>
{% endblock %}

{% block js %}
  {{ block.super }}
  <script type="text/javascript">
  var data = {
         isUserAuthenticated:{% if request.user.is_authenticated %}true{% else %}false{% endif %}
    };
    console.log('data',data);
    $(function() {
      app.showHomePage(".homepage",data);
    });
  </script>
{% endblock %}

index.js

window.app = {
      showHomePage: function(id,data){
          render(
            <Provider store={createStoreWithMiddleware(reducers)}>
                <Router>
                 <App />
                </Router>
            </Provider>, document.querySelector(id)
          );
      },
}

Banner is a child component of App component

const Banner = (props) => (
   <div className="navbar-container">
        <div className="ui container">
            <div className="ui large secondary menu">
                <a className="toc item">
                    <i className="sidebar icon"></i>
                </a>
                <div className="item logo">
                    <div className="ui logo shape">
                        <div className="sides">
                            <div className="active ui side">
                                Foodie
                            </div>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
                <Link to="/restaurant" className="active item tab">Home</Link>
                <Link to='/addrestaurant' className='item tab'>Add Restaurant</Link>
                <Link to="/products" className="item tab">Products</Link>
                <div className="right item">
                    <a href="" id="bookingInfoButton" className="ui white inverted button">Booking</a>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
      </div>
);

export default Banner;

Answer 1

The issue is probably that you haven't configured your URLs to handle the routes that are defined in React Router. In your Django urls.py you should be using a catch all to match all URLs to your index template

urlpatterns += [
    # match the root
    url(r'^$', base_view),
    # match all other pages
    url(r'^(?:.*)/?$', base_view),
]

The base_view would be a view function that renders a template which includes your bundled app.