Comment by coruja
4 years ago
I try to tell myself "don't get caught up in using a fancy frontend framework on this one," as I'm starting a new project, but I keep running into situations where my functionality would just work so much better.
As an example, I was writing a tool the other day to automate some things that have to do with quotes for my 9-to-5. Being able to add inline functionality in Django to select a customer within the quote page, or add / edit a new customer without having to leave that quote felt very 'hackish,' using the same jquery callback method used in Django Admin. My point is, this feels like very basic functionality, but turned into a whole other ordeal using traditional methods.
> Being able to add inline functionality in Django to select a customer within the quote page, or add / edit a new customer without having to leave that quote felt very 'hackish,' using the same jquery callback method used in Django Admin.
Agreed. For form based apps I don't like to fall back to SPAs (bloat, the desire of every dev to reinvent forms in their framework, client and server side validation duplication), and yet working with relational data they are easier.
It's one of those places where a half-way step would be so useful.
That is something I hadn't really taken the time to compartmentalize and articulate, but a js framework that focused on forms only would be wonderful. I'm sure that someone has taken a stab at it. Something like crispy-forms that added the ability to add components for variable data such as inlines...
I'm guessing that Vue.js may be a good drop-in for this, but it has been a while since I have used Vue.