Django app

[marcrleonard]

Great work with NiceGUI! It's a fantastic balance between high-level and low-level to make guis in python!
I also love that you can incorporate it into an existing fastapi app which would have things like authentication already built in.

I was curious if there was any plan to create a django addon/app for this? It would require divorcing from fastapi, so the code model may have to change a bit (core vs ...), so I'm guessing it wouldn't be trivial.

[rodja]

Yes, it would not be trivial. But there are a lot of Django users out there. If someone wants to tackle it we could support with know-how transfer.

[marcrleonard]

I'm definitely curious to look into it! Where would you suggest I begin digging around first?

[rodja]

I suggest you start with nicegui.py. That's where we configure the FastAPI server. Also run.py may be of interest, because this is where the webserver is started.

If you go a bit deeper you will encounter client.py which builds the html response and page.py where the magic of the @ui.page decorator is encapsulated.

[creo13]

Any follow up to this?

[rodja]

There is a Reddit post about Django 5.0 becoming more ASGI (async/await) which allows for better integration with NiceGUI/FastAPI.

[Mte90]

I discovered https://github.com/rexsum420/django-nice that requires 2 different server for the ports but it is not very good documented.

Right now I was able to get everything including getting the data from django but it is not ver easy to understand from the readme compared to the code.

[Mte90]

that package now is better with a new readme and a login example