Build a Full-Stack Mobile App
React Native + Django: Build a Full-Stack Mobile App
React Native, Django, Railway, Cloudflare R2, Google & Apple Sign-In, RevenueCat, Sentry, Resend.
Guide 01 of the React Native + Django series. Instant PDF download.
Written while shipping, not after
Most React Native tutorials stop at the app. Most Django tutorials stop at the API. Almost nobody covers what it actually takes to wire them together into something you can ship — authentication, file storage, subscriptions, error monitoring and email, all working as one system.
This is the guide I built while shipping Cap That, my multiplayer meme caption party game. Every dependency is pinned to a specific version. Every decision has the reasoning behind it, not just the code.
8 things you'll walk away with
Every dependency is pinned and every snippet came out of a real codebase.
- React Native 0.74 bare workflow setup, folder structure, and a typed Axios client with silent JWT refresh
- Django 5 + DRF on Railway — settings, Procfile, health check endpoint, environment variables
- Cloudflare R2 media bucket using presigned upload URLs, so your server never handles a file byte
- Google Sign-In and Apple Sign-In end to end, including the Apple Developer Portal steps that trip everyone up
- Sentry error monitoring wired into both Django and React Native, with noise filtering
- RevenueCat for cross-platform subscriptions plus a Django webhook to keep subscription state in sync
- Resend for transactional email, Zoho for support@, and a Django Admin that's hardened and actually useful
- Structured logging, rate limiting, push notifications, and JWT refresh token rotation
Who this is for
Developers who want a complete working stack — not a toy example that falls apart the moment you add real auth or payments. You should be comfortable with Python, JavaScript and the command line.
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Noah Davison
I'm a software engineer who builds and ships apps on nights and weekends. These guides are what I wish existed while I was doing it: the real architecture, the pinned versions, and the traps that cost me whole evenings. Everything in them runs in production in an app with real users.