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Django, HTMX and Alpine.JS: A Match Made In Heaven

arcanemachine on June 06, 2021

If you want to see HTMX and Alpine.JS in action together, click here to see a basic project I put together while using the two. Contact Moen Digit...
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Adam Hill

Nice write up! One small package to make integrating Django with HTMX a little easier is pypi.org/project/django-htmx/.

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Eric Le Codeur

Handy... Thanks for sharing.

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Eric Le Codeur

Great Post. I use HTMX and Alpine.js on almost all my Django project for the last year. HTMX deserve lot more publicity because they are awesome!

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Souk Syp.

Htmx deserves more post like this. If you come from backend, it just makes your life easier.

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Preslav Rachev

Can you also listen for HTMX events using Alpine? Something like @htmx:responseError="... handle the error on the client" is what I am looking for, but apprently, this won't work.

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arcanemachine

Finally dug into this a bit. It appears that htmx:responseError is not fired on the element. However, htmx:error does fire, so I was able to do something like the following:

@htmx:error="(evt) => myHtmxErrorFunction(evt)"

This generic error event is currently undocumented, and I need to dig a little more to find out what events are dispatched to the element.

I think HTMX will need a PR or two in order to get things to make sense. htmx:sendError and htmx:responseError should definitely be fired on the elemtn.

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arcanemachine

Off the top of my head, I cannot currently remember. Try asking in reddit.com/r/htmx, the creator is pretty active there.

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jwing8

I am also trying to do this but cannot get it to work

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guzmanojero

How do you compare this to Django Unicorn? django-unicorn.com/
Nice article, thanks

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arcanemachine

I haven’t used them together… This way, I’m not tied to a specific platform.

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Dostow**->

:-O I've just checked it, thanks for the info!!
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Mohammad

This is interesting.

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Dostow**->

Amazing Article!! :D Thanks for sharing!