It has blocks for this https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/templates/builtins...
Re:Django 3.1
by jungletime on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @01:51PM
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That isn't as nice to having a function inside the same file you can call over, IMHO.
Also lets say you define a block for rendering a button with a different color. Then use 20 different buttons on one page.
Does that mean that the block code would need to be loaded from a file 20 times and parsed each time. Seems like huge performance hit to do it that way.
Is there a technical reason why you can't have a function in the same file.
Am I misunderstanding how it works?
I wrote a little library that does exactly this, though it's framework agnostic. I agree being able to use components in Python for webdev is nice.
It's called "dashml" on PyPi if anyone is interested. I mostly use it in Django and haven't worked on it lately cause of $DAYJOB though.
Django has full Jinja support these days which is vastly preferable.
Re:Django 3.1
by jungletime on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @01:54PM
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Can you write functions in Jinja?
It would be far better to be able to define a function that you can call for bits of html code that might repeat in the same template.
Since I stopped using Django at 1.6 does the new version let you define functions in the templates?