Django & HTMX - Building Hypermedia Web Applications!

Learn how to build HTMX-driven apps with Django, including WebSocket based apps with django-channels

What you'll learn
- The HTMX core attributes and behavior
- Explore HTMX integrations with tools like Alpine.js, GSAP and Sweetalert
- Build a CRUD app with Django & HTMX
- Build WebSocket-driven chat app with Django, HTMX and django-channels
- Deploy Django apps to Render cloud platform

Requirements
- Some exposure to Django and Python would be beneficial before taking the course

Description
Django is the most popular Python web framework, and an up-and-coming paradigm is to build Hypermedia applications. These remove the complexity and bloat of JavaScript frameworks, providing a simpler and more stable model for building web apps.

In this course, we'll look at HTMX from the ground up, before eventually building a more complex chat-room application that uses django-channels to handle WebSocket functionality, and will integrate this with tools like Redis and the HTMX WebSocket plugin. We'll look at deploying this app to the Render cloud platform, and will look at at handling file uploads to cloud storage (Amazon S3) using Django & HTMX.

Throughout the course, we will look at the following concepts, among others:

Fundamental HTMX attributes - hx-get, hx-trigger, hx-target, etc

Hypermedia concepts - HTML over the wire, locality of behavior, AJAX requests

Building CRUD applications with HTMX and Django

HTMX integration with Sweetalert2 for confirmations

HTMX integration with GSAP for animations

HTMX integration with Alpine.js for interactive, sleek webpages

File uploads with HTMX and Amazon S3

HTMX WebSocket plugin

django-channels & Redis integration

Broadcasting messages to chat rooms with Channel Layers

Integrating HTMX with Django core features - Models, Forms, Views, Templates

Deploying Django apps to the Render cloud platform

HTMX Polling functionality

Implementing common HTMX patterns such as Active Search

Useful Django packages - django-htmx, django-template-partials, Whitenoise

Basic TailwindCSS and DaisyUI styling

Who this course is for:
- Python web-developers who want to build apps with HTMX/hypermedia tools
- Django developers looking to build WebSocket/chat functionality from the ground up
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