Reusable application for Django nicely bridging client and server sides.
Project description
https://github.com/idlesign/django-xross
Description
Reusable application for Django nicely bridging client and server sides.
Streamline you server and client interaction using some declarative techniques in your HTML, and a couple of xross functions in your views.
Somewhere in your views.py:
from django.shortcuts import render
from xross.toolbox import xross_view, xross_listener # That's all we need from xross.
def list_news(request):
"""This function will be used by xross to load news using AJAX."""
news = ... # Here we fetch some news from DB.
return render(request, 'mytemplates/sub_news.html', {'news': news})
@xross_view(list_news) # Decorate your view - instruct xross to use `list_news` when needed.
def index_page(request):
"""This is our view to streamline."""
xross_listener() # xross will handle AJAX calls from that moment.
return render(request, 'mytemplates/index.html')Now to your mytemplates/index.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<!-- xross depends on jQuery. Include it. -->
<script src="http://yandex.st/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<!-- Now xross itself. -->
<script src="{{ STATIC_URL }}js/xross/xross.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
xross.automate(); // Instruct xross to watch for page elements with `xross` class.
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="list_news" class="xross">
<!--
Contents of this div will be replaced with news from Django's `list_news()`
automatically on page load.
That's the default of xross, but it knows some other nice little tricks.
Read the docs.
-->
</div>
</body>
</html>At last mytemplates/sub_news.html (nothing special):
{% for item in news %}
<div>
<div>{{ item.title }}</div>
<div>{{ item.text }}</div>
</div>
{% endfor %}That’s not all, not at all. Read the docs!
