Hi, I think you are not thinking this completely through correctly.
Django is a framework used to generate HTML pages. HTML pages render one page at a time in one webbrowser window. That is the way HTML works. You can via javascript do some funky things, like Single page applications - but then most of the templating engine in django isn't used. You could create templates on the backend and send them via ajax to the frontend but that is mainly used for rendering partial pages and not for complete pages. Also, it would be really cumbersome to write the code. If you already have a REST backend, why do you need django at all? Django isn't the best framework for getting information from a REST API and then publishing the information. You really should be looking into running a single page application in that case... Django can be used to create a REST backend for the single page application however. Regards, Andréas 2018-01-18 17:25 GMT+01:00 johnf <jo...@jfcomputer.com>: > I have the backend covered with REST. When I try to google hybrid google > comes up with hybrid mobile apps. I did find fragment.js but I don't see > any type of real information on how to use it. I did find some info on > javascript and multi-windows but here again it looks like it wants to > replace the template system that Django uses. > > It just seems to me that this issue must have come up in the past. There > must be a solution provided by Django without replacing parts of the Django > framework???? > > Johnf > > On 01/18/2018 06:22 AM, Jani Tiainen wrote: > > Hi. > > Yes and no. Usually you do SPA, a single page application, that just talks > to backend, Django in this case, using some means. REST api and JSON data > is quite common. > > So basically you need only one template that fires up rest of your > interface. > > There are though alternative approaches like using hybrid of JS library to > request HTML fragments and render them using JS. Fragments then are > generated using templates. > > 18.1.2018 15.46 "johnf" <jo...@jfcomputer.com> kirjoitti: > > But doesn't Django provide the template system? Do you replace the > template system with DoyuoToolkit? > > Johnf > > > > On 01/18/2018 05:43 AM, Jani Tiainen wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> This actually doesn't have anything to do with Django, but frontend. >> Basically you need to pick some Javascript UI framework that supports >> features you're after. >> >> Personally I've only used Dojotoolkit (free, nicely licensed) and ExtJS >> (commercial). >> >> On 18.1.2018 15.07, johnf wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have a desktop CRUD application that allows the same form to be opened >>> many times. Example: I can open a customer's (A) record in one window/form >>> and then from the first window/form (customer A's) open a second or third >>> window to process customer B or customer C etc... all without closing any >>> of the windows/forms. IOW I can have many windows open at the same time >>> all using the same form with different customer records. >>> >>> How can I do this with Django? 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