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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have added some very interesting new capabilities to our project: switching between pages, creating server-side rendering versions of each path, creating a dynamic page, modifying URLs, updating specific sections, working with sessions, and avoiding CSRF with WebSockets.

We now already have the basic skills to build a dynamic site with database access, group management, partial or full HTML rendering, event control that triggers backend actions, form creation, and some security measures. One question may be echoing in your head: was it worth all the effort? Just think that we can now create SPAs with minimal use of JavaScript, we don’t need to build an API to connect the frontend and the backend, and the time between requests and their responses is ridiculously low, avoiding the use of loading in many cases. The complexity of the projects also has decreased and we can avoid the installation of several frontend libraries. Judge for yourself. The...

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