I've already gotten my fair share of Bootstrap and Django but never tried out other frontend frameworks like Angular, React, etc. and finally wanted to try SvelteKit. So I'm really inexperienced and new with this sort of stuff.
Currently I've already set-up my Django project as well as a SvelteKit project by following the tutorial on their website.
My problem is that I'm confused about how to combine Django and SvelteKit now. Do I just run both servers simultaneously on different ports and get the data from Django JSON APIs into my Svelte frontend or is there some kind of approach to this? I thought that maybe there's a way to get my Django app to render the Svelte files from the Svelte server for me. I just feel really lost at the moment so if anyone could help me or has some resources I could read to get more familiar with the topic, since I didn't find a lot online, that'd be great!
Many thanks in advance!
First, understand the difference between Svelte and SvelteKit. SvelteKit is a front-end + server solution that is a layer above vanilla Svelte. SvelteKit adds things like routing and support for sever(less) functions.
If you want to use Django for all your server-side processing, you should just use (vanilla) Svelte to write independent web components that you call from html served by Django. No need to use SvelteKit if you aren't using any of the extra framework features.
How to write a web component with vanilla Svelte
How to write a web component with SvelteKit.
If you want to just write your API's in Django and do everything else from SvelteKit, I would run both Django and SvelteKit servers from different subdomains and/or ports. Like django.example.com and kit.example.com or example.com:8000 and example.com:3000.
SvelteKit also provides a low-level handle() hook that can bypass SvelteKit, but usually JS/node.js is still used. I think it would be tricky to pass a request from SvelteKit to Django.
I find myself having the same question, it's not perfect but I got it to work with the following:
Create a directory that will contain everything, e.g. my-project
Inside the directory create your Django project, e.g. django-svelte, with django-admin startproject django-svelte
From my-project/django-svelte create an app to contain the svelte app, e.g. frontend, with python manage.py startapp frontend
Inside frontend create two subdirectories templates and static; inside each of them create a frontend directory. (You should have frontend/templates/frontend and frontend/static/frontend in the end)
Inside my-project initialize a svelte-kit project, e.g. client, with npm init svelte client
Inside client install all packages and add #sveltejs/adapter-static with npm install and npm i -D #sveltejs/adapter-static
Replace the content of svelte.config.js with:
import adapter from '#sveltejs/adapter-static';
export default {
kit: {
paths: { base: "/static/frontend" }, // Adjust according to where you collect static files and the name of the Django app
adapter: adapter({
pages: '../django-svelte/frontend/templates/frontend', // Adjust according to the name of the Django app
assets: '../django-svelte/frontend/static/frontend', // Adjust according to the name of the Django app
fallback: null,
precompress: false
}),
prerender: {
// This can be false if you're using a fallback (i.e. SPA mode)
default: true
}
}
};
This will write your HTML, JS and CSS files inside the frontend app.
Create a build with npm run build
Collect static files in Django with python manage.py collectstatic
Run Django with python manage.py runserver or other servers
I'm sure there are simpler ways though :-)
I made a simple template for svelte and django. please check this link: https://github.com/Pei2tech/svelte4django. What you need to add routing to support svelte instead of using sveltekit.
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I have a Django app, I want to use vuejs with vite as the frontend, I don’t want to use Django Rest Framework.
Is there a way to make this stack work properly?
I tried install vite in a separate folder within the Django project directory and I am not sure how to connect the vue files with Django
First you need to decide how you're going to use Vuejs. As a complete replacement of Django templates or simply as an enhancement of them?
For the second option, you don't need to do much. Just load Vue as a script.
For the first, you'd need both Vite dev server and Django server running. Then from .vue files you'll be able to call routes on your Django server (given you set them up). Django has JsonResponse class, you'll want to use it if you don't want to use Django REST. Don't forget about CORS.
Keep in mind, that only applies to development.
I have an existing vue js project and for backend I want to use django, what came to my mind was to use rest api to communicate with the backend without any integration. is that what everyone is doing or my approach is old school and I have to put the vue project in django directory and go through the whole collectstatic thing?
sorry if my question is too basic.
i don't know hows people doing, usually me and my team did like the python just access the index.html from the Vue build folder when production mode.
but in development mode, we just separate two of them. the python running as the endpoint API (need to enable cors mode in dev), and the Vue run in development mode.
There are plenty of tutorials and helpful posts how to use Django and Vue properly (in various options) all over the Internet.
But I didn't find a single one who describes how to create a Django application which consists of more than one app, each having it's own part of the Vue frontend.
I am creating a Django application with a Vue frontend, and it will have a lot of apps that can be plugged into the main system very easily (using a custom framework). But this only is the backend. I'd like to enable each Django app for having a "plugin" part of the frontend as well: e.g. a set of Vue components that are rendered "dynamically" in the frontend when this app is added in INSTALLED_APPS.
How can I provide "plugin hooks" in Vue to load those components? All the things I have seen (dynamic/lazy component loading with webpack using webpack-loader, etc.) is not what I want. It only describes how to load a component that is predefined later in the http request timeline.
How am I supposed to "merge" all the components? Can I simply create components in static folders and let ./manage.py collectstatic do the magic?
It doesn't matter if the application is a SPA or maybe I have to use Django templates (with Vue components included) - both would be a viable method.
Maybe this even is a webpack question and should be: How do I bring Vue (or React, etc) to collect its sources from different subdirectories like foo_app/static/, blah_app/static/, bar_app/static - is there a way to tell Vue/Webpack/etc to search in myproject/*/static for Vue components to merge?
And can I include "all components" (dynamical amount) than in another component, which is needed for such a system?
Can anyone enlighten me here - is that completely impossible? Or am I thinking in the wrong direction?
Thanks.
I have a couple of VueJS apps in my django site and I'm planning to add more.
I bundle them with webpack with the help of django-webpack-loader.
https://github.com/owais/django-webpack-loader
Not a web developer, but currently playing with cordova and would like to use django to use python to implement backend functionality. As I (vaguely) understand it, cordova manages frontend stuff and django is mostly for backend stuff. So is it possible to use django as a backend for a cordova project (eg. directly use preexisting django templates in a cordova app)? If so, how? Is there some kind of special communicationn that I'd need to code myself?
(My uneducated guess would be to initialize the django project inside the cordova www folder, but this seems wrong). And if this is a totally wrong way to think about this problem, let me know.
You could use Django as your backend and implement a REST like API (urls that accept and return JSON data) in it. There are useful tools/libraries for that, for example django-rest-framework.
Then you would call those endpoints (URLs) from your frontend, which can be written in cordova or any other JS frontend frameworks.
As you already pointed out, I suggest keeping frontend and backend code in separate folders.
I've built out a basic django application, and I'm looking to incorporate react+redux into the app. I've come across several react+redux templates like the react-redux-starter-kit and redux-webpack-es6-boilerplate:
These are awesome, except they both run node servers. I'm wondering:
Does there exist some sort of a tutorial or template that has the same features (webpack, Hot Module Replacement, linting, testing, abides by Fractal Project Structure guidelines, etc...) but does not run a node server, so I can just copy it into my django application (I realize I'd have to do a fair bit of configuration to get everything working smoothly).
Is it ok to run the webpack server within my django application? (Basically node would be running within django) Are there any downsides in doing this?
I've tried altering the above two templates, but they are pretty dense and complicated. Any advice would be very much appreciated!
I don't see any reason to mixing up django and react app.
I would prever leave them as two independent parts of your application: SPA (react + redux) + API (django)
If you already have django app and just need to add some react pages into, then build react app as static files and place it outside your django project, and configure your reverse proxy server (nginx) to load those new pages as static pages (react).