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Having used HTMX and Unpoly with Django, for over 2 years now, I prefer using Unpoly more these days. Unpoly feels just like Django, it is a more of a framewor
by fmnxl 2y ago
Having used HTMX and Unpoly with Django, for over 2 years now, I prefer using Unpoly more these days.
Unpoly feels just like Django, it is a more of a framework than a thin layer, but that means it comes with a lot of productive features built-in, albeit opinionated.
It covers 95% of the use-cases of a typical web app, with its layers and forms concepts. E.g. I love creating "subinteractions" with unpoly, where a complex process can be divided into smaller modal forms for creating the "related" objects of a model, which then updates the main form of the model itself. Unpoly makes these simple, and its documentation caters for exactly these scenarios.
- JodieBenitez 2y agoSame here... Unpoly is a perfect match for Django.
- SCUSKU 2y agoThe one thing I couldn't get past when looking into Unpoly is that if you're in a deeply nested modal/layer, and then refresh the page, it just shows you the most recent modal as a full page. My expectation is that when you refresh, instead it would keep you on the base page, and then wipe all the modals.
- spapas82 2y agoUnpoly by default changes the browser's history to the url of the modal. Thus when your refresh you'll get exactly that. You can modify that behavior with up-history, see here https://unpoly.com/history-in-overlays https://unpoly.com/history-in-overlays
- fmnxl 2y agoYou can set up-history="false" and there'd be no navigation when opening the modal, so when you refresh the page it'd refresh the parent layer not the modal. What's more arguable I think is how pressing the browser Back button doesn't preserve the layers, but opens the previous page as a full page. I think that can be changed in a config somewhere, though.
- spapas82 2y agoThe funny thing is that unpoly was originally written for ror, but I also agree that its a great fit for Django and its philosophy.