JinjaX addition might be good, as you are already using jinja2

[AhnafCodes]

Django after 2017-18 was being used only as backend with DRF. Frontend space was primarily captured by ReactJs.

One thing I thing React got right was React’s preference of Composition over inheritance.

Unlike, Django Templating(DTL) were inheritance is mostly used to structure a page. We often have a "base.html"(parent) with defined blocks and this is extended with blocks being overridden/reused in the child. It might be confusing at times when only selective blocks/parts of the parent template are used.

There is composition using "include", but its often not the first choice and it all feels cluttered & verbose.

JinjaX(Jinja extension) gives us ability similar to React to define granular components and compose Pages/Views using those smaller components.

[davegaeddert]

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I'll take a look! I do have something similar though. I'm not totally happy with the current implementation and am going to make some changes soon, but it enables a similar syntax (this example has components namespaced under "admin", but generally they would just be HTML elements that start with an uppercase letter and load a template from templates/elements/{name}.html.

It is completely undocumented at the moment, unfortunately: https://github.com/dropseed/plain/tree/master/plain-elements