django-htmx

The great thing about HTMX is it fits really nicely with templated server-rendered frameworks like Django. You can have a page with a list of items. The page is one template, and it includes a sub-template which is just the <li> items. Then you have a separate view for "get list fragment" which just returns the updated/sorted/filtered <li>, rendered with that same sub-template. If you toggle the ordering, or filter the list, HTMX will automatically call the fragment renderer and replace just the <li> items, without reloading the page. See this example: https://github.com/adamchainz/django-htmx/blob/8054f049f53f0... This approach solves the common interactivity use-cases requiring JS in a server-rendered app, without having to write any JS, and without having to build a REST API. Instead you just render HTML, which your framework is excell

If you use django-htmx, it's pretty simple to get the "this HTTP request came from HTMX" flag and branch accordingly in your view. The docs give a simple example of the logic here: https://django-htmx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/middleware.html... The examples give a fleshed-out version: https://github.com/adamchainz/django-htmx/blob/main/example/... Though that's very slightly different than how I described it above, but it's basically the same idea; in this case you commonize the `main` block between the two contexts.