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DjangoCon 2022 | From React to htmx on a real-world SaaS product: we did it, and it's awesome!

DjangoCon Europe · 109.4K views · 2022-10-15 · 26:46

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Overview

David Guillot describes how his team replaced a two-year-old React UI of their SaaS product with Django templates and htmx in a couple of months. The talk gives concrete indicators on code size, performance and team impact.

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HN commenters point to it as a real-world case study of moving from React to htmx, especially in threads on boring web development and HTML over the wire.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2022–2026

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What people said

Xeamek · 2023-11 · Recommendation

I think you might find that relevant. (But in short, the author expressed being verry happy with switching to 'stack' you described) [VIDEO]

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dvtkrlbs · 2023-08 · Recommendation

You can check this talk out [VIDEO] I was thinking the same but in the video they specifically talk about faceted search and how they did it with htmx. For the second part you probably go with your own javascript or get away with hyperscript

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dragonshed · 2023-02 · Recommendation

It depends on the usecases & application reqs. There are times when server-rendered content can have enormous benefits over a SPA. Check out this djangocon talk where a SaaS product moved from react to htmx. [VIDEO]

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