New feature pre pull request discussion about django-htmx

[adamchainz]

Hi

Because the classes are so small, I'm very hesitant to add them, and maintain them. I intend the library to mostly consist of low level tools for working with htmx - much like htmx itself is mostly low level primitives. It's not clear to me that partial rendering is even that useful as a technique, since one can use hx-select.

On top of that I'm not a big fan of class based views, I think they're normally a poor trade off. At least the class hierarchy in Django itself is too complicated. To this end I maintain Django-vanilla-views. But that's another rant.

Anyway, to conclude, at this time, I'm not that interested in adding a couple of short view classes, and particularly maintaining them. I think the partial rendering example is enough for users to get started with and build upon.

Thanks for the idea though.

[yelluw]

Ok I understand :)

Wasn't aware of Django-vanilla-views. Thanks for the friendly discussion!

[adamchainz]

No worries, any time. Good luck using htmx.