If I understand your use cas properly, jQuery should be plenty; but if you only need to support modern browsers, you can do 98% of what JQuery does using vanill

If I understand your use cas properly, jQuery should be plenty; but if you only need to support modern browsers, you can do 98% of what JQuery does using vanilla JavaScript these days, and use lodash for the rest. Consider using server-rendered partials for updating the display. That’s particularly compatible with Django’s templating language.