NGINX Boilerplate - Django/JS Frontend

some.advancedsite.com.conf

# A fully working dev example
# This assumes that: 
# A (in my case Vue) JS dev server is listening on port :8080 and is in charge of all look and feel loveliness 
# it also assumes that a Django dev server is running on port :8000 and has the sole purpose of being an API server

# The websockets stanza can be omitted if it isn't applicable

# Any documents in /static will be served...well statically

# `manage.py collectstatic` *should* copy the Django static files here so long as:
#    STATIC_FILES = '/static/'
#    STATICFILES_DIRS = ['/srv/static']
#  is configured in settings.py

server {
    listen        80;
    server_name   some.advancedsite.com;
    location /static/ {
        autoindex on;
        root /srv/static/;
    }
    location / {
        proxy_pass    http://localhost:8080;
        proxy_set_header    Host                $host;
        proxy_set_header    X-Real-IP           $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-Host    $host;
        proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-Server  $host;
        proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-Proto   $scheme;
        proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-For     $remote_addr;
        proxy_redirect off;
    }
    location /api/ {
        proxy_pass    http://localhost:8000;
        uwsgi_modifier1 30;
    }
    location /sockjs-node/ {
      proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
      proxy_http_version 1.1;
      proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
      proxy_set_header Connection "Upgrade";
    }
 }

some.coolsite.com.conf

# Both of these exmaples presume a working instance of NGINX on a Linux server

# Docker should be fine
# Certbot should be used, even in development

# If you're using Windows for any of this...well you've got bigger problems than TCP packets and load balancing. 


# The barest minimum

server {
	include uwsgi_params;
	root /var/www/html;
	index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
	server_name some.coolsite.com;

	location / {
    # This is for the dev server only!
		proxy_pass django;
    # For uWSGI...
    # uwsgi_pass django;
	}
}

upstream django {
	server localhost:8000;
}