Moving static templates from django to nitrogen?

[pwang...@gmail.com]

Hi there,

We have a project written in Python Django am are planning to migrate it to nitrogen.. 

https://www.findoctors.in

The current project is written in Django and has lot of html sections with code between the html. I am wondering what is the best way to do the same in Nitrogen? 

Do I need to rewrite the whole html using nitrogen elements OR can i just put in the static html and use elements for form inputs?

Appreciate your help.

Regards,

Phunsukh

[Bunny Lushington]

On Mar 22, 2021, at 10:37, pwang...@gmail.com <pwang...@gmail.com> wrote:

We have a project written in Python Django am are planning to migrate it to nitrogen.. 

Do I need to rewrite the whole html using nitrogen elements OR can i just put in the static html and use elements for form inputs?

Lord no.  Check out erlydtl [1] if you haven’t already.  It’s pretty straightforward to render your erlydtl template and pass it into the 

  #template{ text=RenderedTemplate } Nitrogen element.  

If you do this, sections like [[[page:make_button(button_type)]]] are then rendered through the Nitrogen engine (so erlydtl is producing a Nitrogen template, not an HTML page).  make_button/1 then returns a #button{} with appropriate attributes.

Form elements just need to have the correct class.  So if you’re calling wf:q(email_address) you’ll want to give your textbox input the class wfid_email_address in your DTL file.

Note that the text field of the template record is relatively new; I think you’ll have to pull from master to make use of it.  Also, I do this enough that I recently made a little helper library to work with the DTL templates. [2]

None of this is to cast shade on Nitrogen’s HTML generating ability.  There are benefits to DTL and Nitrogen, a hybrid approach works really well for me.  (And honestly, make Bootstrap easier to work with.)

b.

[1] https://github.com/erlydtl/erlydtl

[2] https://github.com/nxolib/nxo_template