adamchainz
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3 years ago Hi!
This is more an idea than an issue. Sorry if there's a better place to share.
This is fine - I've been meaning to make a "Feature Request" issue type as well.
I know this pattern won't be universal but I wanted to share here and ask for your thoughts. If you survey your use of HTMX in Django templates, are the changes mostly mechanical? And could we automate that?
This pattern sounds fairly specific to your project. My use of htmx has been quite different.
I would also not be a fan of doing any post-processing, as this makes things harder to debug (templates no longer match the real HTML, no locality of behaviour). I would rather use something localized, like a template tag, or simply copy-pasting throughout the project.
Overall the goal of this package is to be like htmx itself: provide many atomic building blocks, rather than a framework for one particular way of doing things.
So thanks for the suggestion but it's a “no thanks”.
—Adam
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This is more an idea than an issue. Sorry if there's a better place to share.
I recently added HTMX to a website that wasn't using it before. It was a fairly typical CRUD-like app and after about the third page, I realized the transformations I was making (e.g. adding hx-target and hx-select on a bunch of elements) were fairly mechanical. I then wrote a function as a middleware that made the transformations (mostly) automatically.
The middleware worked by parsing the HTML response, looking for form tags, and adding the hx-target/hx-select fields when an id attribute was present on the tag. I typically would replace the outer HTML to get a nice interactive result. Does that make sense? The overall goal was to leave the templates as-is and use middleware to automatically add the "hx-" tag attributes.
I know this pattern won't be universal but I wanted to share here and ask for your thoughts. If you survey your use of HTMX in Django templates, are the changes mostly mechanical? And could we automate that?