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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

Hydrating sections or components

Although we have a function that can dynamically include HTML rendered from a template and apply it to a tag present in the document, we cannot decide whether we want to replace or insert HTML, in other words, hydrate or replace the DOM.

Hydration is a technique in web development where client-side JavaScript converts a static HTML web page into a dynamic web page by attaching event handlers to the HTML elements. This allows for a fast First Contentful Paint (FCP) but there is a period of time afterward where the page appears to be fully loaded and interactive. However, it is not until the client-side JavaScript is executed and event handlers have been attached.

To solve this problem, we will start by remembering that the Consumer class is prepared to receive the append instruction:

    def send_html(self, event):
        """Event: Send html to client"""...
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