django-xross 0.6.0

Description

Reusable application for Django nicely bridging client and server sides.

Streamline you server and client interaction using some declarative techniques in your HTML, and a couple of xross functions in your views.

Somewhere in your views.py:

from django.shortcuts import render
from xross.toolbox import xross_view, xross_listener  # That's all we need from xross.


def list_news(request):
    """This function will be used by xross to load news using AJAX."""
    news = ...  # Here we fetch some news from DB.
    return render(request, 'mytemplates/sub_news.html', {'news': news})


@xross_view(list_news)  # Decorate your view - instruct xross to use `list_news` when needed.
def index_page(request):
    """This is our view to streamline."""

    xross_listener()  # xross will handle AJAX calls from that moment.

    return render(request, 'mytemplates/index.html')

Now to your mytemplates/index.html:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <!-- xross depends on jQuery. Include it. -->
    <script src="http://yandex.st/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

    <!-- Now xross itself. -->
    <script src="{{ STATIC_URL }}js/xross/xross.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        xross.automate();  // Instruct xross to watch for page elements with `xross` class.
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="list_news" class="xross">
        <!--
            Contents of this div will be replaced with news from Django's `list_news()`
            automatically on page load.

            That's the default of xross, but it knows some other nice little tricks.
            Read the docs.
         -->
    </div>
</body>
</html>

At last mytemplates/sub_news.html (nothing special):

{% for item in news %}
    <div>
        <div>{{ item.title }}</div>
        <div>{{ item.text }}</div>
    </div>
{% endfor %}

That’s not all, not at all. Read the docs!

Documentation

http://django-xross.readthedocs.org/