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silviogutierrez·Jun 24, 2022

Theoretically, the Dockerfile should "just work"™ with Render.com as well. Right now I focus on fly.io only because their free tier offers PostgreSQL without time limits. Render, I believe, only does so for a period of time. See here: https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/blob/main/dev... https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/blob/main/dev... https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/blob/main/dev...

In Things I do every time I start a Django project

silviogutierrez·Apr 20, 2022

Shameless plug: If you want seamless SSR with Django logic, but React templates, check out my project at https://www.reactivated.io . It's like HTMX but uses React, and the JS bits are rendered on the server. You can then hydrate on the client. The Reactivated docs site itself uses the project: https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/tree/main/web...

In The absurd complexity of server-side rendering

silviogutierrez·Apr 6, 2021

Agreed. This is why I created a library to render JSX through Django. See it here: https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/ Both my personal blog and business run on it in production. See my profile for links. The biggest issue was deploying it since you need python and node. Still a work in progress, and docs are severely lacking. But I did add a single-click deploy to Heroku: https://dashboard.heroku.com/new?template=https://github.com...

In Django 3.2

silviogutierrez·Dec 23, 2020

That's exactly what https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated does. It's a work in progress and docs are coming. But it's the best of both worlds: Django SSR using statically typed JSX. See for example my blog or business sites (on profile). Both SSRed by Django using React templates. Then when the client loads, it gracefully "attaches" for dynamic interactive behavior as needed. By far the biggest pain point is having to run node and python on the server. So I'm working on the best way to do that.

In Show HN: Django and React SaaS boilerplate tutorial

silviogutierrez·Jul 28, 2020

Sort of, but not always. My blog at https://www.silviogutierrez.com is React+Django strictly server side. I like JSX that much. Try loading it with JS disabled. Same at my business site: https://www.joyapp.com. It was a huge ordeal getting it setup (with React SSR, etc), but it's definitely doable. I've open sourced it but it sorely needs documentation (incoming): https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated Basically, despite the tooling (not because of it), once you get going with JSX, TypeScript and the like, nothing else comes close. At least in my experience. But again, none of the above stops me from dumping that output into a single cache key per request. It's still dynamic, just cached robustly.

In Next.js 9.5

silviogutierrez·Jan 1, 2020

It's not, it's a service. However, I'm actively open sourcing parts of the stack at http://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated Mainly, rendering Django + React seamlessly without having to build a SPA.

In Show HN: Joy – a privacy-first, ad-free nutrition tracker for pragmatic types

silviogutierrez·Jan 1, 2020

Tech Stack (We're on HN after all) - React, both for the app itself and the static pages. - Django for all server logic. - Heavy use of Redux for the application areas - Server-side rendered React templates with Django. Seamless with https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated . - PostgreSQL - TypeScript for all React code - Mypy for some Python code, and type generation to interact with TypeScript Disclosures - I do use Google Analytics, but only on the marketing pages. Not in the app. - Mixpanel is used for my own analytics. - I'm working on a clearer privacy policy. Right now, I'm using the one Automattic gracefully open sourced.

In Show HN: Joy – a privacy-first, ad-free nutrition tracker for pragmatic types

silviogutierrez·Dec 2, 2019

Painful at first, but well worth it. You can ignore all existing code and only use it going forward. django-stubs is black magic and helps a lot. Here's an example setup that I use for my library: https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/ the "sample" site is 100% type checked. Look at scripts/test.sh for running mypy in ci (and .github for the CI config)

In Django 3

devxpy·Oct 24, 2018

I have a quite very crude implementation of form fields on my side, which annotates the type of formfield (as a string) along with several other useful things, like id_for_formfield, html_name etc. -- In your https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/blob/master/c... import {Form} from '../components/Form'; I can't find `../components/Form`. Where is the source for that? --- Here are the fields I was able to extract, meaningfully. https://github.com/pycampers/react-pages/blob/417ec24129b80b... It still doesn't seem enough for building anything serious though.

In React v16.6.0: lazy, memo and contextType

silviogutierrez·Oct 24, 2018

Agreed. But as soon as you hit any dynamic behavior, you kind of end up wishing you could "drop" into React. That's why I built the following project: https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated It's very early on, but essentially, completely replaces the template rendering with React components. Still regular markup, but whenever you need dynamic behaviors, it's trivial. And it's all server side rendered. So basically, looking at https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/blob/master/c... You can see the traditional Django context becomes "Props" in the top level component. Then it's React all the way down. Notes: 1. The most complicated part is the initial setup. You do need to run NodeJS, webpack + Django server. Working on improving that. 2. I like TypeScript and use it here. But theoretically it'll be optional. The Django+Pyth

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on part is also statically typed using MyPy. 3. No instructions whatsoever yet. But you can see a live site using this stack here: https://www.silviogutierrez.com/ . Notice it's server rendered but has dynamic behaviors that are trivial in React but harder with jQuery + Django. Example: https://www.silviogutierrez.com/blog/making-cck-fields-read-... Look at the nested commenting and moving the form around. Very easy in React. 4. Because of the architecture, adding a much-better-turbolinks style Ajax is trivial. Click around the site above (loading indicator not yet added). The page is re-rendered entirely on the client but gets a server AJAX response. Hope that's interesting info. If you'd like to try it out, definitely let me know. Once you overcome the setup hurdles, it's amazingly productive. As in, if all you wish to do is `{{ form }}` like old school Django, here's the equivalent sample template: https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/blob/master/c...

In React v16.6.0: lazy, memo and contextType