Hello,
my 2 cents here. I've searched for years to find "the right" frontend
for Django. Tried, React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, and many others, even
developed GDAPS, a Django plugin system with flexible optional frontend
integration optionally (Vue only ATM - but the frontend integration is
stuck, read below why), and almost got crazy. I ended up in forgetting
all the frontend frameworks altogether as they all are completely
un-pythonic and un-djangoish, get into your way and force you to
re-write everything you already had working.You have to write all the
logic of views again in your frontend of choice, and well, do the
validation *again* in the backend. So everything gets more complex, with
the "benefit" of getting a few milliseconds and fewer round trips. It's
just "cooler".
Oh, and yes, forget Django's template language. In the best case the
frontend barks at it and you have to define own variable delimiters
(Vue) if mixed into the templates, or it isn't even possible to use it
without getting into big trouble. You'll end up defining a separate
project, and using REST or GraphQL for communication with Django.
Additionally you have to throw webpack, rollup, parcel, or any other
bundler of your choice into the mix. Which then won't like your
non-admin-frontend.
What I ended with, and that has none of those disadvantages, is *HTMX*.
Keep your views, keep your templates, keep your validations/validators,
render everything serverside, just salt the html templates with some
HTMX attrs where needed. Works almost perfectly, and even could be added
incrementally.
If I would develop a better Django admin, I'd go for HTMX. (and I tried
Sockpuppet, Unicorn, and many others too.)
If it was for me, I even would add a neat HTMX integration to Django core.
Cheers, Christian
Am 15.10.21 um 08:52 schrieb Warren Havemann:
Hi everyone,
I've been contemplating the development of an SPA version of admin
either in Angular, React, Vue or even Flutter... preferably in Angular
due to it's data binding approach.
The idea is to serve the SPA from Django, dynamically generating it so
that the great model based apps that one can create with the current
admin site can be dynamically generated in a similar way, but as an
SPA. Why SPA.. just to enable a better, more powerful user experience
without the round trips and page reloads.
Hoping it will in the same way form a RAD tool for SPA development
with a Django back-end.
If we get really smart, we may be able to make it theme-able.
I have messaged the django dev group as I have had a look at the work
that may be involved and I believe that if we we're to succeed in
making this a standard addition to django as an admin alternative, we
make have to accommodate it in the code a bit... there may be a bit of
refactoring of the admin code.
Just wondering if anyone would be up for joining me in creating
something like this?... or if you know of an existing project trying
to do this?
Thanks
Warren
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