HTML-ivating your Django web app with Htmx, AlpineJS, and streaming HTML
The video discusses concerns over the prevalence of single page applications online, promoting traditional server-based websites. It recommends Django over React, demonstrating fast website creation and speed optimization techniques.
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The YouTube video delves into the widespread adoption of single page applications (SPAs) on the internet, highlighting worries about their excessive use and intricacy. It emphasizes the advantages of conventional server-based websites and explores alternative strategies in web development. The video suggests considering Django over React and showcases instances of developers achieving rapid website creation using Django and Python. Furthermore, it showcases a real-life example where a company enhanced website speed by establishing limits for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript resources.
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6 commentsHowever, now that I'm getting to the point where I want to take my web app from "pretty cool toy" to something I can sell to users with all the bells and whistles, I'm having a bit more trouble. There just aren't as many examples out there for "bell and whistle" patterns than there are with React.
Eg: I want to implement typeahead. When I google "typeahead htmx alpine" I get some blog posts, some reddit posts, some random github gists. Cool, but looks like I'm going to have to think about the problem and toy around with it a bit to get it working. It's not quite "copy and paste this component". When I google "typeahead react" the 1st link is a pretty popular npm package that seems to support everything I want (and some stuff I didn't even know I wanted). Complete with user guides and docs and everything.
So now I'm asking myself whether I made the right decision trying to keep things "simple" with htmx/alpine? It's not even about whether my app is a SPA or not, or "how much interactivity I want" (which is a difficult question actually if you're not familiar with FE - what is interactivity, exactly?), it's more like "which framework is easier to blindly stumble through (with ChatGPT's help) to get what I want".
Alpine.js has never really clicked for me. Outside of anything simple I find myself struggling with the framework.
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