title: Is there a best practice way to direct output of the development server to stdout for a front-end dev server?
body: <p>Let's say I have a a hybrid application (the django templater is required to serve the page with the form widgets, data, etc, however there is still a decent amount of js/ejs/lodash/etc wizardry going on in the front-end).</p>
  
  <p>The front-end engineers would prefer to develop on <code>npm</code>'s purpose-built front-end dev server, but need the output from the django templater. What is the correct way to simulate a browser request, and direct the page body to <code>stdout</code> (to be picked up by <code>webpack</code> or whatever else is going on in the front-end dev environment)?</p>
  
  <p>Should I <code>manage.py runserver</code>, and simulate a request with <code>curl</code>? Or is there a better way? It strikes me as difficult to manage authentication and csrf this way.</p>