This sort of complexity is a major reason I've been moving in the direction of dropping Javascript on sites I build. My last web app only used 4 lines of JS for

This sort of complexity is a major reason I've been moving in the direction of dropping Javascript on sites I build. My last web app only used 4 lines of JS for dismissing messages. Django SSR, templates, forms, and plain HTML work in extremely predictable ways. It's much easier to reason about and test plain HTML.