Django, HTMX and Alpine.js: Modern websites, JavaScript optional

Re:Django, HTMX and Alpine.js: Modern websites, JavaScript o... by jspash on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @12:15PM (#29320365)

Have a look at how Phoenix(Elixir) does it with LiveView. You simply write everything as a server rendered view and the framework pulls things apart and sends just what changed over a web socket. Its mind blowing how fast it is (can be. Latency is real)

I have no doubt that this style of front-end management is going to be a game changer in the next few years. Of course full-on SPA frameworks will still have their place. But if you aren’t writing the next Google Maps clone, maybe you don’t need all that. It’s made me love web dev again after hating the complexity explosion of recent years.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8xJzHq8ru0M

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Re:Django, HTMX and Alpine.js: Modern websites, JavaScript o... by pmontra on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @03:12AM (#29327886)

What worries me (I write Django, Rails, Phoenix web apps - different customers at the same time) is that I'll have to learn yet another three different ways to do the same thing. What I'm doing now is either creating HTML pages (the 3 ways are pretty much the same, Django a little bit more set apart) or a JSON backend (basically the same everywhere.)

But to be fair it's fear of the unknown: I read about all of these approaches but the only new project started with a SPA and the other ones will never move from backend generated HTML.

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Re:Django, HTMX and Alpine.js: Modern websites, JavaScript o... by systemvoltage on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @11:33PM (#29326938)

The concept is absolutely fantastic, I am very intrigued, thanks.

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