Reconciling Backend Templates with Frontend Components

1 · Nick Sweeting · Feb. 3, 2017, 12:08 a.m.
How to build a frontend without making a Single-Page-AppAt $startupNameHere we decided to write our backend in Django and our frontend in React. The combination is not unusual these days, but if you’ve ever tried it you’ve probably found there’s some friction between page composition with backend templating systems, and React’s component model.The fundamental issue is that Django wants you to build up your pages using template fragments, and React wants to pull you into its world with JS compone...