Django templates on the frontend?

TALK: Django templates on the frontend? by Christophe Henry

In recent years, the Python community has widely adopted HTMX and Hotwire's Turbo. The paradigm of these frameworks is to use AJAX requests to handle changes in the web page. However, there are situations where each HTTP request has a cost, either in bandwidth, volume quota, or any other form of resource cost. In such situations, your application cannot afford to make an HTTP request every time a subform is added to a Django Formset, for instance. After encountering this situation several times, I decided to start working on django-template-transpiler, a tool written in Rust that converts Django templates into a JS function that renders the DTL on client side, similar to what Handlebars can do. The rationale to allow the developers to make your page dynamic, while minimizing the number of HTTP queries and render both on server-side and client-side using your Django templates as a single source of truth.

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