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Christophe Henry

Christophe Henry

I am a senior developer struggling with ADHD always keen on learning new things and working to make other people's lives simpler. I currently work as a Python/Django independent contractor for the French governement. In the past I also occupied other positions such as Java, web, full-stack developer, devops, and even sys admin for a while. I aslo contribute to a lot of things as I can't seem to be able to focus on one. https://github.com/christophehenry https://blog.christophe-henry.dev/

Django templates on the frontend?

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In recent years, the Python community has widely adopted HTMX and Hotwire's Turbo. The paradigm of these frameworks is to use AJAX requests to handle changes in the web page. However, there are situations where each HTTP request has a cost, either in bandwidth, volume quota, or any other form of resource cost. In such situations, your application cannot afford to make an HTTP request every time a subform is added to a Django Formset, for instance. After encountering this situation several times, I decided to start working on django-template-transpiler, a tool written in Rust that converts Django templates into a JS function that renders the DTL on client side, similar to what Handlebars can do. The rationale to allow the developers to make your page dynamic, whil minimizing the number of HTTP queries and render both on server-side and client-side using your Django templates as a single source of truth.