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Building SPAs with Django and HTML Over the Wire

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803240190
Pages 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Andros Fenollosa Andros Fenollosa
Profile icon Andros Fenollosa

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started with Python
2. Chapter 1: Setting up the Virtual Environment 3. Chapter 2: Creating a Django Project around Docker 4. Part 2: WebSockets in Django
5. Chapter 3: Adding WebSockets to Django 6. Chapter 4: Working with the Database 7. Chapter 5: Separating Communication in Rooms 8. Part 3: HTML over WebSockets
9. Chapter 6: Creating SPAs on the Backends 10. Chapter 7: Creating a Real-Time Blog Using Only Django 11. Part 4: Simplifying the frontend with Stimulus
12. Chapter 8: Simplifying the Frontend 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Moving between pages and generating a browser

Visitors need to navigate between different pages; a simple button structure and corresponding logic for loading the appropriate templates will need to be incorporated.

We are going to create a browser to dynamically jump between pages or, in other words, request the backend to render the page in the right place:

  1. The first step is to create a component with hyperlinks. We create a file in app/website/templates/components/_nav.html with the following structure:
    <ul class="nav__ul">
        <li>
            <a
                    href="#"
                    class="nav__link nav__link nav__link--page{% if active_nav == "all posts" %} active{% endif %}""
       ...
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