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I think a lot of developers have moved to reactjs calling an api.

• collyw 5y ago
  Basically doubling the complexity of an app. If you need a fair amount of front end interaction, fair enough, but many apps would be a lot simpler with Django templates and a bit of jQuery.
  • silviogutierrez 5y ago
    Agreed. This is why I created a library to render JSX through Django. See it here: https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/ https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/ Both my personal blog and business run on it in production. See my profile for links. The biggest issue was deploying it since you need python and node. Still a work in progress, and docs are severely lacking. But I did add a single-click deploy to Heroku: https://dashboard.heroku.com/new?template=https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/tree/infrastructure/heroku https://dashboard.heroku.com/new?template=https://github.com...