title: Django Forms with ReactJS
body: <p>I have Django forms rendered using Django templates. Now I want to add a React component to one of the form fields (and perhaps to more than one field in the long term).</p>
  <p>Based on what I have read so far, its seem best not to mix Django templating with React rendering and have Django serve only as backend API sending JSON data to React, while React takes over the entire form rendering. So I am now trying to re-render my forms entirely through React.</p>
  <p>Instead of forms.py, I have now created serializers.py to define what data is to be sent to React and have Django Rest Framework setup in my environment. Now I am trying to figure out how to send this data across. There are some good online tutorials (and SO posts) that talk about integrating Django/DRF with React but havent found a single example of end-to-end form rendering through React and DRF.
  Specifically, can anyone let me know what do I really write in my view that can then be useful for the GET request from React that tries to fetch the form data? A web reference or just the broad steps needed should be enough for me to get started (and to dig in more into the docs).</p>
  <p>Update:
  Also adding a simplified version of the serializers.py code here:</p>
  <pre><code>from .models import Entity
  from rest_framework import serializers
  
  
  class EntitySerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
      class Meta:
          model = Entity
          fields = ['name', 'role', 'location']
        
  </code></pre>