Access to Django Session with React

Question

I'm new to React and I wanna Access my Django sessions with React framework.
In this case I have an array in my session named UserInfo that I can access with request.session['UserInfo'] in Django.
I wanna know how can I get UserInfo data in React side and work with it?
Literally how can we get or pass data from frontend to backend between these two?

Answer 1

You can not access session variables, or at least not directly, you will need an API to retrieve these. session variables are stored at the server-side, and normally used for sensitive data you don't want to expose to the client.

You could thus make a small view that we can use to fetch the data:

def user_info(request):
    return JsonResponse({'data': request.session.get('UserInfo')})

and then work with an AJAX request, to fetch the data.

But be careful! Don't create a view that can retrieve an arbitrary key:

# don't do this!!

def session_info(request, key):
    return JsonResponse({'data': request.session.get(key)})