I got stuck in the same situation but caught onto the issue tracker before I got in too deep. You should check out turbograft from Shopift which is what inspire

I got stuck in the same situation but caught onto the issue tracker before I got in too deep. You should check out turbograft from Shopift which is what inspired partial rendering in the first place. https://github.com/Shopify/turbograft https://github.com/Shopify/turbograft