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Building SPAs with Django and HTML Over the Wire

You're reading from  Building SPAs with Django and HTML Over the Wire

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

Defining a controller

The purpose of the controller is to connect the DOM with JavaScript. It will bind the inputs to a variable and the events that we indicate to a function created inside the controller.

The structure is as follows:

import { Controller } from "../vendors/stimulus.js".
 
export default class extends Controller {
 
   // Variables linked to inputs.
   static targets = [ "input1" ]
 
   // Constructor or function to be executed when the
   // controller is loaded.
   connect() {
   }
   // Simple function
   myFunction(event) {
   }
}

We have imported the Controller class that belongs to the framework itself with a combination of import and from. Then, we created a class that extends Controller and is also accessible from an import (export default). Inside, we have an example of a target called input1 and...

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