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htmx is one of the hottest properties in web development today, and for good reason. This framework, along with the libraries and techniques introduced in this course, will have you writing the best Python web apps you've ever written: clean, fast, and interactive without all that frontend overhead.
If you are a Python web developer that has wanted to build more dynamic, interactive apps, but just don't want to (or can't) write a significant portion of your app in a rich frontend JavaScript framework, you'll absolutely love htmx. This library lets you write Python code you love and still add that clientside interactive aspect.
Source code and course GitHub repository
https://github.com/talkpython/htmx-django-course
What's this course about and how is it different?
htmx is a very compelling technology. It's one of the first legitimate libraries that delivers on the promise of dynamic, interactive web applications without complex JavaScript. htmx allows us to write server-side code in any language (Python in our case) and, through a few simple HTML attributes, bring our pages to life.
This is the only course (that we're aware of) that shows you the full lifecycle of building Python and Django-based applications centered around htmx. Unlike basic tutorials where you'll find only just quick coverage of a simple feature, we take a full-fledged web app and extend it by adding four real-world features all building upon htmx.
Moreover, we show you the right way to use htmx with Django and Python. The resulting code is incredibly clean and would impress almost any professional web developer.
What will we build
In the course, we will add a bunch of htmx-powered features to an existing application. This app, called Video Collector, is a beautiful Django web app that allows us to save, explore, search, and play videos we've collected from YouTube.
Demo app from the course
The Video Collector application we'll build during this course.
What topics are covered, In this course, you will:
See how htmx differs from common JavaScript front-end frameworks such as Vue and React.
Understand the server-side exchange enabled by htmx attributes (e.g. hx-trigger).
Add click to edit to an existing data-driven Django application.
Add deep linking to our dynamic web application, allowing us to share links into interactive segments.
Add active search to an existing data-driven Django application.
Implement browser history for htmx actions (allowing back and forth navigation).
Add infinite scroll to our app.
Distinguish between full page requests and partial htmx requests within a single view method in Django.
And lots more
Who is this course for?
This course is for anyone who creates Python web applications and needs them to be more interactive in manners often characterized as SPAs (single page applications) but doesn't want to (re)write the application largely in a complex JavaScript frontend framework such as Vue.js or React.js.
The experience level for taking this course is not significantly high. You'll need:
A basic understanding of how Django works
Experience with core Python concepts (such as classes, functions, and decorators) but nothing complex (such as async or metaclasses)
You'll need to know a little about HTML and HTTP
That's it.
Concepts backed by concise visuals
While exploring a topic interactively with demos and live code is very engaging, it can mean losing the forest for the trees. That's why when we hit a new topic, we stop and discuss it with concise and clear visuals.