In the past month, I have written a webcomponent, which encapsulates most
of the functionality the Django admin's change view implements.
It is very Pythonic/Djangonic in the sense, that it does not require to
write any JavaScript, nor HTML. You can just use your Django Form
as usual, warp it ins
Another advantage that I figured while finishing the DAL 4.0 PoC offering the
AutocompleteLight WebComponent support in addition to Select2:
- easy to template with
Example:
def render(self, name, value, attrs=None, renderer=None):
choice = self.field.queryset.filter(pk=value).first()
deck = s
Hi all,
We got a working PoC here:
[https://github.com/yourlabs/djwc](https://yourlabs.io/oss/djwc)
Advantages:
- no more nodejs
- no more webpack
- no more form.media
- as such, much more reusable
- no more manual asset management in templates
- works with components of any framework that can
Hi Both.
Jon Dufresne (mainly just him) had been doing a super job removing the
jQuery dependencies in the admin, and modernising the JS whilst he's at it.
It's approaching just "vanilla" JavaScript, all nice and modern, and
linted.
The blocker here will be Select2 -- we're not going to rewr
I cannot state how excited I am to see such as seasoned Django hacker as Jacob
being up for the task. I believe I'm not the only one who have had, for a long
time now, a vision for Django where the effort in the django.contrib.admin
becomes usable outside the admin and end up beating Rails on ge
I'm very much in favor of this. Getting rid of jQuery is a very important
step to make Django future-prove.
In my other (non-legacy) projects, I currently replaced all JavaScript
against webcomponents. I actually made good
experience with the StencilJS compiler. Compared to Svelte, I really
appr
Hello everybody,
Currently, the admin site provides various form fields, and formsets, that
depend on JS scripts.
These are loaded by form media.
Nowadays, webcomponents have made it into standard HTML, all browsers now
support:
- Custom Elements: https://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/spec/cust
