Decoupled Django: Understand and Build Decoupled Django Architectures for JavaScript Front-ends

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V. GagliardiDecoupled Django https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7144-5_2

2. JavaScript Meets Django

Valentino Gagliardi¹  

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Colle di Val D’Elsa, Italy

 

This chapter covers:

• How JavaScript fits into Django

• JavaScript ecosystem and tooling

• JavaScript frontend libraries and frameworks

Despite its reputation of being a toy language, JavaScript has become a mature tool in recent years.

For bad or good, JavaScript is everywhere these days. JavaScript tooling has grown exponentially as well, with new libraries and techniques pouring fast in the ecosystem. In this chapter, we introduce the modern JavaScript scene. You will understand what JavaScript tools do, and how ...