Django views/templates vs. Javascript MVC Front-ends

[Bobby Mozumder]

It seems that the MVC Javascript systems like Angular and Ember are winning the front-end. They’re very responsive compared to being served files from the back-end - no need to wait for server responses, since there’s a local cache subset of the database in the browser.

It would probably be useful to move the Django front-end view controller/template systems to something like that over the long-term. Right now there’s a lot of repetition, of recreating the django models within the front-end database models cache, as well as recreating the templates itself, when we try to integrate a front-end framework with Django.

Also, I’m pretty sure that if django doesn’t come up with a front-end javascript MVC framework, then the Angular or Ember guys are going to come up with a back-end solution.

Anyways, just some ideas. Maybe this was already discussed and rejected? Don’t know.

Thank you,

-bobby

[Collin Anderson]

I think many people are going the django-as-a-REST-server route.