Links to htmx components relevant stuff

Fragment handlers

Only handles templates

• django-template-partials
  • No javascript
  • Does not add syntax
  • Good thing: Two tags, "partial" and "partialdef", does not pollute templatetag namespace further
  • Partials can be reused by include
  • A partial can be repeated
  • Defined inline and at the start
• django-render-block
  • No javascript
  • Does not add syntax
  • Need to update every view because using new function to render
  • A block can not be repeated
  • Defined inline
• Slippers
  • No javascript
  • Adds syntax
  • Adds dynamic templatetags
  • Bad thing: pollutes namespace, can clash with existing tags
  • Bad thing: configured via yaml
• django-web-components
  • No javascript
  • Adds syntax
  • Adds dynamic templatetags
  • Template in separate file by default, can be incorporated directly via render-method
  • Bad thing: pollutes namespace, can clash with existing tags

Component frameworks

Bundles staticfiles with an actual component

• django-components

  • No javascript
  • Does not live inside apps
  • Puts every component thing into the same folder
  • Bad thing: Needs its own staticfiles-finder in order to not treat templates as static files
  • Good thing: One tag "component", does not pollute templatetag namespace
  • Can have everything in a single file, in Python
  • Needs updates to STATICFILES_DIRS

  Possibly incompatible with theming since staticfiles/templates cannot be overridden

• Tetra

  • Javascript
  • Puts every component thing into a python class. While it is possible to also import from files this is not the documented, preferred way.
  • Deeply dependent on alpine.js
  • Rewrites DOM
  • Slow

Examples, patterns, tips

• django-htmx-patterns repo
• Tips for django-htmx
• Blogpost on full-page reload alternatives