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Building SPAs with Django and HTML Over the Wire

You're reading from   Building SPAs with Django and HTML Over the Wire Learn to build real-time single page applications with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803240190
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andros Fenollosa Andros Fenollosa
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started with Python
2. Chapter 1: Setting up the Virtual Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Creating a Django Project around Docker 4. Part 2: WebSockets in Django
5. Chapter 3: Adding WebSockets to Django 6. Chapter 4: Working with the Database 7. Chapter 5: Separating Communication in Rooms 8. Part 3: HTML over WebSockets
9. Chapter 6: Creating SPAs on the Backends 10. Chapter 7: Creating a Real-Time Blog Using Only Django 11. Part 4: Simplifying the frontend with Stimulus
12. Chapter 8: Simplifying the Frontend 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Changing URLs

We have managed to change pages and visually mark in the browser where we are, but the browser URL is still passive. We are going to add a mechanism to update the path every time we change pages.

In JavaScript, we can use the History API to manipulate the address that the visitor sees in the browser. For example, if you wanted to show that you are at /login/, you would implement the following:

history.pushState({}, '', '/login/')

What we will do is modify the event listener message by adding the line we just mentioned, together with a new parameter that will always send a Consumer class called url:

// Event when a new message is received by WebSockets
myWebSocket.addEventListener("message", (event) => {
    // Parse the data received
    const data = JSON.parse(event.data);
    // Renders the HTML received from the Consumer
    const selector =...
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