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I've recently discovered Slippers [1] which provides something very similar but for Django Templates. I've tried it in a side project and it is amazing. I'm pairing it with Unpoly [2] and Tailwind and honestly, I wouldn't try to build and SPA ever again unless I need full offline support.

[1] https://mitchel.me/slippers/

[2] https://unpoly.com

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I built something very similar with straight flask templates paired with bootstrap 5 and htmx (very similar to unpoly.) I think it’s an especially great way to build an internal tools framework, since you get the approachability of python and components make it easier for non-frontend folks to build UIs.

I'm actually a frontend dev full time at my day job, and still think this approach is better for 90% of the things we do with react. The big drawback is that it requires using python and knowing more about backend and most frontend devs are too purists to get their hands dirty this way. So, at work still doing CRUD forms with React, rxjs, redux, websockets, graphql and multiple home made validation libraries. Such a waste of energy and time.

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