Rewrite HTML Functionality about django-htmx

[adamchainz]

Hi!

This is more an idea than an issue. Sorry if there's a better place to share.

This is fine - I've been meaning to make a "Feature Request" issue type as well.

I know this pattern won't be universal but I wanted to share here and ask for your thoughts. If you survey your use of HTMX in Django templates, are the changes mostly mechanical? And could we automate that?

This pattern sounds fairly specific to your project. My use of htmx has been quite different.

I would also not be a fan of doing any post-processing, as this makes things harder to debug (templates no longer match the real HTML, no locality of behaviour). I would rather use something localized, like a template tag, or simply copy-pasting throughout the project.

Overall the goal of this package is to be like htmx itself: provide many atomic building blocks, rather than a framework for one particular way of doing things.

So thanks for the suggestion but it's a “no thanks”.

—Adam

[grantjenks]

Oooh, I like the idea of a template tag rather than middleware. That's a good one, thanks!

Just an aside for myself: I wonder if I could design the middleware so that it worked automatically on the Django admin. Might be a fun way to transform the admin into a SPA. Also would be good practice to see what challenges are involved with making something work more generically.

My use of htmx has been quite different.

I'm curious to learn more here. Love to trade tips about Django + HTMX.

[adamchainz]

I'm curious to learn more here. Love to trade tips about Django + HTMX.

I'll be writing about htmx on my blog soon :)