Release notesΒ€
v0.115Β€
FixΒ€
- Fix integration with ManifestStaticFilesStorage on Windows by resolving component filepaths (like
Component.template_name
) to POSIX paths.
v0.114Β€
FixΒ€
- Prevent rendering Slot tags during fill discovery stage to fix a case when a component inside a slot fill tried to access provided data too early.
v0.113Β€
FixΒ€
- Ensure consistent order of scripts in
Component.Media.js
v0.112Β€
FixΒ€
- Allow components to accept default fill even if no default slot was encountered during rendering
v0.111Β€
FixΒ€
- Prevent rendering Component tags during fill discovery stage to fix a case when a component inside the default slot tried to access provided data too early.
π¨π’ v0.110Β€
GeneralΒ€
π¨π’ BREAKING CHANGESΒ€
-
Installation changes:
- If your components include JS or CSS, you now must use the middleware and add django-components' URLs to your
urlpatterns
(See "Adding support for JS and CSS")
- If your components include JS or CSS, you now must use the middleware and add django-components' URLs to your
-
Component typing signature changed from
to
-
If you rendered a component A with
Component.render()
and then inserted that into another component B, now you must passrender_dependencies=False
to component A:
FeatΒ€
- Intellisense and mypy validation for settings:
Instead of defining the COMPONENTS
settings as a plain dict, you can use ComponentsSettings
:
# settings.py
-from django_components import ComponentsSettings
-
-COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(
- autodiscover=True,
- ...
-)
-
- Use
get_component_dirs()
andget_component_files()
to get the same list of dirs / files that would be imported byautodiscover()
, but without actually importing them.
RefactorΒ€
-
For advanced use cases, use can omit the middleware and instead manage component JS and CSS dependencies yourself with
render_dependencies
-
The
ComponentRegistry
settingsRegistrySettings
were lowercased to align with the global settings: RegistrySettings.CONTEXT_BEHAVIOR
->RegistrySettings.context_behavior
RegistrySettings.TAG_FORMATTER
->RegistrySettings.tag_formatter
The old uppercase settings CONTEXT_BEHAVIOR
and TAG_FORMATTER
are deprecated and will be removed in v1.
-
The setting
reload_on_template_change
was renamed toreload_on_file_change
. And now it properly triggers server reload when any file in the component dirs change. The old namereload_on_template_change
is deprecated and will be removed in v1. -
The setting
forbidden_static_files
was renamed tostatic_files_forbidden
to align withstatic_files_allowed
The old nameforbidden_static_files
is deprecated and will be removed in v1.
TagsΒ€
π¨π’ BREAKING CHANGESΒ€
-
{% component_dependencies %}
tag was removed. Instead, use{% component_js_dependencies %}
and{% component_css_dependencies %}
-
The combined tag was removed to encourage the best practice of putting JS scripts at the end of
<body>
, and CSS styles inside<head>
.On the other hand, co-locating JS script and CSS styles can lead to a flash of unstyled content, as either JS scripts will block the rendering, or CSS will load too late.
-
-
The undocumented keyword arg
preload
of{% component_js_dependencies %}
and{% component_css_dependencies %}
tags was removed. This will be replaced with HTML fragment support.
FixΒ€
- Allow using forward slash (
/
) when defining custom TagFormatter, e.g.{% MyComp %}..{% /MyComp %}
.
RefactorΒ€
{% component_dependencies %}
tags are now OPTIONAL - If your components use JS and CSS, but you don't use{% component_dependencies %}
tags, the JS and CSS will now be, by default, inserted at the end of<body>
and at the end of<head>
respectively.
SlotsΒ€
FeatΒ€
- Fills can now be defined within loops (
{% for %}
) or other tags (like{% with %}
), or even other templates using{% include %}
.
Following is now possible
{% component "table" %}
- {% for slot_name in slots %}
- {% fill name=slot_name %}
- {% endfill %}
- {% endfor %}
-{% endcomponent %}
-
- If you need to access the data or the default content of a default fill, you can set the
name
kwarg to"default"
.
Previously, a default fill would be defined simply by omitting the {% fill %}
tags:
But in that case you could not access the slot data or the default content, like it's possible for named fills:
{% component "child" %}
- {% fill name="header" data="data" %}
- Hello {{ data.user.name }}
- {% endfill %}
-{% endcomponent %}
-
Now, you can specify default tag by using name="default"
:
{% component "child" %}
- {% fill name="default" data="data" %}
- Hello {{ data.user.name }}
- {% endfill %}
-{% endcomponent %}
-
- When inside
get_context_data()
or other component methods, the default fill can now be accessed asComponent.input.slots["default"]
, e.g.:
class MyTable(Component):
- def get_context_data(self, *args, **kwargs):
- default_slot = self.input.slots["default"]
- ...
-
- You can now dynamically pass all slots to a child component. This is similar to passing all slots in Vue:
class MyTable(Component):
- def get_context_data(self, *args, **kwargs):
- return {
- "slots": self.input.slots,
- }
-
- template: """
- <div>
- {% component "child" %}
- {% for slot_name in slots %}
- {% fill name=slot_name data="data" %}
- {% slot name=slot_name ...data / %}
- {% endfill %}
- {% endfor %}
- {% endcomponent %}
- </div>
- """
-
FixΒ€
-
Slots defined with
{% fill %}
tags are now properly accessible viaself.input.slots
inget_context_data()
-
Do not raise error if multiple slots with same name are flagged as default
-
Slots can now be defined within loops (
{% for %}
) or other tags (like{% with %}
), or even other templates using{% include %}
.
Previously, following would cause the kwarg name
to be an empty string:
RefactorΒ€
- When you define multiple slots with the same name inside a template, you now have to set the
default
andrequired
flags individually.
<div class="calendar-component">
- <div class="header">
- {% slot "image" default required %}Image here{% endslot %}
- </div>
- <div class="body">
- {% slot "image" default required %}Image here{% endslot %}
- </div>
-</div>
-
This means you can also have multiple slots with the same name but different conditions.
E.g. in this example, we have a component that renders a user avatar - a small circular image with a profile picture of name initials.
If the component is given image_src
or name_initials
variables, the image
slot is optional. But if neither of those are provided, you MUST fill the image
slot.
<div class="avatar">
- {% if image_src %}
- {% slot "image" default %}
- <img src="{{ image_src }}" />
- {% endslot %}
- {% elif name_initials %}
- {% slot "image" default required %}
- <div style="
- border-radius: 25px;
- width: 50px;
- height: 50px;
- background: blue;
- ">
- {{ name_initials }}
- </div>
- {% endslot %}
- {% else %}
- {% slot "image" default required / %}
- {% endif %}
-</div>
-
- The slot fills that were passed to a component and which can be accessed as
Component.input.slots
can now be passed through the Django template, e.g. as inputs to other tags.
Internally, django-components handles slot fills as functions.
Previously, if you tried to pass a slot fill within a template, Django would try to call it as a function.
Now, something like this is possible:
class MyTable(Component):
- def get_context_data(self, *args, **kwargs):
- return {
- "child_slot": self.input.slots["child_slot"],
- }
-
- template: """
- <div>
- {% component "child" content=child_slot / %}
- </div>
- """
-
NOTE: Using {% slot %}
and {% fill %}
tags is still the preferred method, but the approach above may be necessary in some complex or edge cases.
- The
is_filled
variable (and the{{ component_vars.is_filled }}
context variable) now returnsFalse
when you try to access a slot name which has not been defined:
Before:
{{ component_vars.is_filled.header }} -> True
-{{ component_vars.is_filled.footer }} -> False
-{{ component_vars.is_filled.nonexist }} -> "" (empty string)
-
After:
{{ component_vars.is_filled.header }} -> True
-{{ component_vars.is_filled.footer }} -> False
-{{ component_vars.is_filled.nonexist }} -> False
-
-
Components no longer raise an error if there are extra slot fills
-
Components will raise error when a slot is doubly-filled.
E.g. if we have a component with a default slot:
Now there is two ways how we can target this slot: Either using name="default"
or name="content"
.
In case you specify BOTH, the component will raise an error:
{% component "child" %}
- {% fill slot="default" %}
- Hello from default slot
- {% endfill %}
- {% fill slot="content" data="data" %}
- Hello from content slot
- {% endfill %}
-{% endcomponent %}
-
π¨π’ v0.100Β€
BREAKING CHANGESΒ€
-
django_components.safer_staticfiles
app was removed. It is no longer needed. -
Installation changes:
- Instead of defining component directories in
STATICFILES_DIRS
, set them toCOMPONENTS.dirs
. -
You now must define
STATICFILES_FINDERS
- Instead of defining component directories in
FeatΒ€
- Beside the top-level
/components
directory, you can now define also app-level components dirs, e.g.[app]/components
(SeeCOMPONENTS.app_dirs
).
RefactorΒ€
- When you call
as_view()
on a component instance, that instance will be passed toView.as_view()
v0.97Β€
FixΒ€
- Fixed template caching. You can now also manually create cached templates with
cached_template()
RefactorΒ€
-
The previously undocumented
get_template
was made private. -
In it's place, there's a new
get_template
, which supersedesget_template_string
(will be removed in v1). The newget_template
is the same asget_template_string
, except it allows to return either a string or a Template instance. -
You now must use only one of
template
,get_template
,template_name
, orget_template_name
.
v0.96Β€
FeatΒ€
-
Run-time type validation for Python 3.11+ - If the
Component
class is typed, e.g.Component[Args, Kwargs, ...]
, the args, kwargs, slots, and data are validated against the given types. (See Runtime input validation with types) -
Render hooks - Set
on_render_before
andon_render_after
methods onComponent
to intercept or modify the template or context before rendering, or the rendered result afterwards. (See Component hooks) -
component_vars.is_filled
context variable can be accessed from withinon_render_before
andon_render_after
hooks asself.is_filled.my_slot
0.95Β€
FeatΒ€
- Added support for dynamic components, where the component name is passed as a variable. (See Dynamic components)
RefactorΒ€
- Changed
Component.input
to raiseRuntimeError
if accessed outside of render context. Previously it returnedNone
if unset.
v0.94Β€
FeatΒ€
-
django_components now automatically configures Django to support multi-line tags. (See Multi-line tags)
-
New setting
reload_on_template_change
. Set this toTrue
to reload the dev server on changes to component template files. (See Reload dev server on component file changes)
v0.93Β€
FeatΒ€
-
Spread operator
...dict
inside template tags. (See Spread operator) -
Use template tags inside string literals in component inputs. (See Use template tags inside component inputs)
-
Dynamic slots, fills and provides - The
name
argument for these can now be a variable, a template expression, or via spread operator -
Component library authors can now configure
CONTEXT_BEHAVIOR
andTAG_FORMATTER
settings independently from user settings.
π¨π’ v0.92Β€
BREAKING CHANGESΒ€
Component
class is no longer a subclass ofView
. To configure theView
class, set theComponent.View
nested class. HTTP methods likeget
orpost
can still be defined directly onComponent
class, andComponent.as_view()
internally callsComponent.View.as_view()
. (See Modifying the View class)
FeatΒ€
-
The inputs (args, kwargs, slots, context, ...) that you pass to
Component.render()
can be accessed from withinget_context_data
,get_template
andget_template_name
viaself.input
. (See Accessing data passed to the component) -
Typing:
Component
class supports generics that specify types forComponent.render
(See Adding type hints with Generics)
v0.90Β€
FeatΒ€
-
All tags (
component
,slot
,fill
, ...) now support "self-closing" or "inline" form, where you can omit the closing tag: -
All tags now support the "dictionary key" or "aggregate" syntax (
kwarg:key=val
): -
You can change how the components are written in the template with TagFormatter.
The default is
django_components.component_formatter
:While
django_components.shorthand_component_formatter
allows you to write components like so:
π¨π’ v0.85Β€
BREAKING CHANGESΒ€
-
Autodiscovery module resolution changed. Following undocumented behavior was removed:
-
Previously, autodiscovery also imported any
[app]/components.py
files, and usedSETTINGS_MODULE
to search for component dirs.To migrate from:
-
[app]/components.py
- Define each module inCOMPONENTS.libraries
setting, or import each module inside theAppConfig.ready()
hook in respectiveapps.py
files. -
SETTINGS_MODULE
- Define component dirs usingSTATICFILES_DIRS
-
-
Previously, autodiscovery handled relative files in
STATICFILES_DIRS
. To align with Django,STATICFILES_DIRS
now must be full paths (Django docs).
-
π¨π’ v0.81Β€
BREAKING CHANGESΒ€
- The order of arguments to
render_to_response
has changed, to align with the (now public)render
method ofComponent
class.
FeatΒ€
-
Component.render()
is public and documented -
Slots passed
render_to_response
andrender
can now be rendered also as functions.
v0.80Β€
FeatΒ€
- Vue-like provide/inject with the
{% provide %}
tag andinject()
method.
π¨π’ v0.79Β€
BREAKING CHANGESΒ€
- Default value for the
COMPONENTS.context_behavior
setting was changes from"isolated"
to"django"
. If you did not set this value explicitly before, this may be a breaking change. See the rationale for change here.
π¨π’ v0.77Β€
BREAKINGΒ€
-
The syntax for accessing default slot content has changed from
to
{% fill "my_slot" default="alias" %} - {{ alias }} -{% endfill %} +
Release notes - Django-Components Django-ComponentsRelease notesRelease notesΒ€
v0.116Β€
FixΒ€
- Fix the order of execution of JS scripts:
- Scripts in
Component.Media.js
are executed in the order they are defined -
Scripts in
Component.js
are executed AFTERMedia.js
scripts -
Fix compatibility with AlpineJS
- Scripts in
Component.Media.js
are now again inserted as<script>
tags - By default,
Component.Media.js
are inserted as synchronous<script>
tags, so the AlpineJS components registered in theMedia.js
scripts will now again run BEFORE the core AlpineJS script.
AlpineJS can be configured like so:
Option 1 - AlpineJS loaded in
<head>
withdefer
attribute:<html> + <head> + {% component_css_dependencies %} + <script defer src="https://unpkg.com/alpinejs"></script> + </head> + <body> + {% component 'my_alpine_component' / %} + {% component_js_dependencies %} + </body> +</html> +
Option 2 - AlpineJS loaded in
<body>
AFTER{% component_js_depenencies %}
:<html> + <head> + {% component_css_dependencies %} + </head> + <body> + {% component 'my_alpine_component' / %} + {% component_js_dependencies %} + + <script src="https://unpkg.com/alpinejs"></script> + </body> +</html> +
v0.115Β€
FixΒ€
- Fix integration with ManifestStaticFilesStorage on Windows by resolving component filepaths (like
Component.template_name
) to POSIX paths.
v0.114Β€
FixΒ€
- Prevent rendering Slot tags during fill discovery stage to fix a case when a component inside a slot fill tried to access provided data too early.
v0.113Β€
FixΒ€
- Ensure consistent order of scripts in
Component.Media.js
v0.112Β€
FixΒ€
- Allow components to accept default fill even if no default slot was encountered during rendering
v0.111Β€
FixΒ€
- Prevent rendering Component tags during fill discovery stage to fix a case when a component inside the default slot tried to access provided data too early.
π¨π’ v0.110Β€
GeneralΒ€
π¨π’ BREAKING CHANGESΒ€
-
Installation changes:
- If your components include JS or CSS, you now must use the middleware and add django-components' URLs to your
urlpatterns
(See "Adding support for JS and CSS")
- If your components include JS or CSS, you now must use the middleware and add django-components' URLs to your
-
Component typing signature changed from
to
-
If you rendered a component A with
Component.render()
and then inserted that into another component B, now you must passrender_dependencies=False
to component A:
FeatΒ€
- Intellisense and mypy validation for settings:
Instead of defining the
COMPONENTS
settings as a plain dict, you can useComponentsSettings
:# settings.py +from django_components import ComponentsSettings + +COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings( + autodiscover=True, + ... +) +
- Use
get_component_dirs()
andget_component_files()
to get the same list of dirs / files that would be imported byautodiscover()
, but without actually importing them.
RefactorΒ€
-
For advanced use cases, use can omit the middleware and instead manage component JS and CSS dependencies yourself with
render_dependencies
-
The
ComponentRegistry
settingsRegistrySettings
were lowercased to align with the global settings: RegistrySettings.CONTEXT_BEHAVIOR
->RegistrySettings.context_behavior
RegistrySettings.TAG_FORMATTER
->RegistrySettings.tag_formatter
The old uppercase settings
CONTEXT_BEHAVIOR
andTAG_FORMATTER
are deprecated and will be removed in v1.-
The setting
reload_on_template_change
was renamed toreload_on_file_change
. And now it properly triggers server reload when any file in the component dirs change. The old namereload_on_template_change
is deprecated and will be removed in v1. -
The setting
forbidden_static_files
was renamed tostatic_files_forbidden
to align withstatic_files_allowed
The old nameforbidden_static_files
is deprecated and will be removed in v1.
TagsΒ€
π¨π’ BREAKING CHANGESΒ€
-
{% component_dependencies %}
tag was removed. Instead, use{% component_js_dependencies %}
and{% component_css_dependencies %}
-
The combined tag was removed to encourage the best practice of putting JS scripts at the end of
<body>
, and CSS styles inside<head>
.On the other hand, co-locating JS script and CSS styles can lead to a flash of unstyled content, as either JS scripts will block the rendering, or CSS will load too late.
-
-
The undocumented keyword arg
preload
of{% component_js_dependencies %}
and{% component_css_dependencies %}
tags was removed. This will be replaced with HTML fragment support.
FixΒ€
- Allow using forward slash (
/
) when defining custom TagFormatter, e.g.{% MyComp %}..{% /MyComp %}
.
RefactorΒ€
{% component_dependencies %}
tags are now OPTIONAL - If your components use JS and CSS, but you don't use{% component_dependencies %}
tags, the JS and CSS will now be, by default, inserted at the end of<body>
and at the end of<head>
respectively.
SlotsΒ€
FeatΒ€
- Fills can now be defined within loops (
{% for %}
) or other tags (like{% with %}
), or even other templates using{% include %}
.
Following is now possible
{% component "table" %} + {% for slot_name in slots %} + {% fill name=slot_name %} + {% endfill %} + {% endfor %} +{% endcomponent %} +
- If you need to access the data or the default content of a default fill, you can set the
name
kwarg to"default"
.
Previously, a default fill would be defined simply by omitting the
{% fill %}
tags:But in that case you could not access the slot data or the default content, like it's possible for named fills:
{% component "child" %} + {% fill name="header" data="data" %} + Hello {{ data.user.name }} + {% endfill %} +{% endcomponent %} +
Now, you can specify default tag by using
name="default"
:{% component "child" %} + {% fill name="default" data="data" %} + Hello {{ data.user.name }} + {% endfill %} +{% endcomponent %} +
- When inside
get_context_data()
or other component methods, the default fill can now be accessed asComponent.input.slots["default"]
, e.g.:
class MyTable(Component): + def get_context_data(self, *args, **kwargs): + default_slot = self.input.slots["default"] + ... +
- You can now dynamically pass all slots to a child component. This is similar to passing all slots in Vue:
class MyTable(Component): + def get_context_data(self, *args, **kwargs): + return { + "slots": self.input.slots, + } + + template: """ + <div> + {% component "child" %} + {% for slot_name in slots %} + {% fill name=slot_name data="data" %} + {% slot name=slot_name ...data / %} + {% endfill %} + {% endfor %} + {% endcomponent %} + </div> + """ +
FixΒ€
-
Slots defined with
{% fill %}
tags are now properly accessible viaself.input.slots
inget_context_data()
-
Do not raise error if multiple slots with same name are flagged as default
-
Slots can now be defined within loops (
{% for %}
) or other tags (like{% with %}
), or even other templates using{% include %}
.
Previously, following would cause the kwarg
name
to be an empty string:RefactorΒ€
- When you define multiple slots with the same name inside a template, you now have to set the
default
andrequired
flags individually.
<div class="calendar-component"> + <div class="header"> + {% slot "image" default required %}Image here{% endslot %} + </div> + <div class="body"> + {% slot "image" default required %}Image here{% endslot %} + </div> +</div> +
This means you can also have multiple slots with the same name but different conditions.
E.g. in this example, we have a component that renders a user avatar - a small circular image with a profile picture of name initials.
If the component is given
image_src
orname_initials
variables, theimage
slot is optional. But if neither of those are provided, you MUST fill theimage
slot.<div class="avatar"> + {% if image_src %} + {% slot "image" default %} + <img src="{{ image_src }}" /> + {% endslot %} + {% elif name_initials %} + {% slot "image" default required %} + <div style=" + border-radius: 25px; + width: 50px; + height: 50px; + background: blue; + "> + {{ name_initials }} + </div> + {% endslot %} + {% else %} + {% slot "image" default required / %} + {% endif %} +</div> +
- The slot fills that were passed to a component and which can be accessed as
Component.input.slots
can now be passed through the Django template, e.g. as inputs to other tags.
Internally, django-components handles slot fills as functions.
Previously, if you tried to pass a slot fill within a template, Django would try to call it as a function.
Now, something like this is possible:
class MyTable(Component): + def get_context_data(self, *args, **kwargs): + return { + "child_slot": self.input.slots["child_slot"], + } + + template: """ + <div> + {% component "child" content=child_slot / %} + </div> + """ +
NOTE: Using
{% slot %}
and{% fill %}
tags is still the preferred method, but the approach above may be necessary in some complex or edge cases.- The
is_filled
variable (and the{{ component_vars.is_filled }}
context variable) now returnsFalse
when you try to access a slot name which has not been defined:
Before:
{{ component_vars.is_filled.header }} -> True +{{ component_vars.is_filled.footer }} -> False +{{ component_vars.is_filled.nonexist }} -> "" (empty string) +
After:
{{ component_vars.is_filled.header }} -> True +{{ component_vars.is_filled.footer }} -> False +{{ component_vars.is_filled.nonexist }} -> False +
-
Components no longer raise an error if there are extra slot fills
-
Components will raise error when a slot is doubly-filled.
E.g. if we have a component with a default slot:
Now there is two ways how we can target this slot: Either using
name="default"
orname="content"
.In case you specify BOTH, the component will raise an error:
{% component "child" %} + {% fill slot="default" %} + Hello from default slot + {% endfill %} + {% fill slot="content" data="data" %} + Hello from content slot + {% endfill %} +{% endcomponent %} +
π¨π’ v0.100Β€
BREAKING CHANGESΒ€
-
django_components.safer_staticfiles
app was removed. It is no longer needed. -
Installation changes:
- Instead of defining component directories in
STATICFILES_DIRS
, set them toCOMPONENTS.dirs
. -
You now must define
STATICFILES_FINDERS
- Instead of defining component directories in
FeatΒ€
- Beside the top-level
/components
directory, you can now define also app-level components dirs, e.g.[app]/components
(SeeCOMPONENTS.app_dirs
).
RefactorΒ€
- When you call
as_view()
on a component instance, that instance will be passed toView.as_view()
v0.97Β€
FixΒ€
- Fixed template caching. You can now also manually create cached templates with
cached_template()
RefactorΒ€
-
The previously undocumented
get_template
was made private. -
In it's place, there's a new
get_template
, which supersedesget_template_string
(will be removed in v1). The newget_template
is the same asget_template_string
, except it allows to return either a string or a Template instance. -
You now must use only one of
template
,get_template
,template_name
, orget_template_name
.
v0.96Β€
FeatΒ€
-
Run-time type validation for Python 3.11+ - If the
Component
class is typed, e.g.Component[Args, Kwargs, ...]
, the args, kwargs, slots, and data are validated against the given types. (See Runtime input validation with types) -
Render hooks - Set
on_render_before
andon_render_after
methods onComponent
to intercept or modify the template or context before rendering, or the rendered result afterwards. (See Component hooks) -
component_vars.is_filled
context variable can be accessed from withinon_render_before
andon_render_after
hooks asself.is_filled.my_slot
0.95Β€
FeatΒ€
- Added support for dynamic components, where the component name is passed as a variable. (See Dynamic components)
RefactorΒ€
- Changed
Component.input
to raiseRuntimeError
if accessed outside of render context. Previously it returnedNone
if unset.
v0.94Β€
FeatΒ€
-
django_components now automatically configures Django to support multi-line tags. (See Multi-line tags)
-
New setting
reload_on_template_change
. Set this toTrue
to reload the dev server on changes to component template files. (See Reload dev server on component file changes)
v0.93Β€
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-
Spread operator
...dict
inside template tags. (See Spread operator) -
Use template tags inside string literals in component inputs. (See Use template tags inside component inputs)
-
Dynamic slots, fills and provides - The
name
argument for these can now be a variable, a template expression, or via spread operator -
Component library authors can now configure
CONTEXT_BEHAVIOR
andTAG_FORMATTER
settings independently from user settings.
π¨π’ v0.92Β€
BREAKING CHANGESΒ€
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class is no longer a subclass ofView
. To configure theView
class, set theComponent.View
nested class. HTTP methods likeget
orpost
can still be defined directly onComponent
class, andComponent.as_view()
internally callsComponent.View.as_view()
. (See Modifying the View class)
FeatΒ€
-
The inputs (args, kwargs, slots, context, ...) that you pass to
Component.render()
can be accessed from withinget_context_data
,get_template
andget_template_name
viaself.input
. (See Accessing data passed to the component) -
Typing:
Component
class supports generics that specify types forComponent.render
(See Adding type hints with Generics)
v0.90Β€
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All tags (
component
,slot
,fill
, ...) now support "self-closing" or "inline" form, where you can omit the closing tag: -
All tags now support the "dictionary key" or "aggregate" syntax (
kwarg:key=val
): -
You can change how the components are written in the template with TagFormatter.
The default is
django_components.component_formatter
:While
django_components.shorthand_component_formatter
allows you to write components like so:
π¨π’ v0.85Β€
BREAKING CHANGESΒ€
-
Autodiscovery module resolution changed. Following undocumented behavior was removed:
-
Previously, autodiscovery also imported any
[app]/components.py
files, and usedSETTINGS_MODULE
to search for component dirs.To migrate from:
-
[app]/components.py
- Define each module inCOMPONENTS.libraries
setting, or import each module inside theAppConfig.ready()
hook in respectiveapps.py
files. -
SETTINGS_MODULE
- Define component dirs usingSTATICFILES_DIRS
-
-
Previously, autodiscovery handled relative files in
STATICFILES_DIRS
. To align with Django,STATICFILES_DIRS
now must be full paths (Django docs).
-
π¨π’ v0.81Β€
BREAKING CHANGESΒ€
- The order of arguments to
render_to_response
has changed, to align with the (now public)render
method ofComponent
class.
FeatΒ€
-
Component.render()
is public and documented -
Slots passed
render_to_response
andrender
can now be rendered also as functions.
v0.80Β€
FeatΒ€
- Vue-like provide/inject with the
{% provide %}
tag andinject()
method.
π¨π’ v0.79Β€
BREAKING CHANGESΒ€
- Default value for the
COMPONENTS.context_behavior
setting was changes from"isolated"
to"django"
. If you did not set this value explicitly before, this may be a breaking change. See the rationale for change here.
π¨π’ v0.77Β€
BREAKINGΒ€
-
The syntax for accessing default slot content has changed from
to
v0.74Β€
FeatΒ€
-
{% html_attrs %}
tag for formatting data as HTML attributes -
prefix:key=val
construct for passing dicts to components
π¨π’ v0.70Β€
BREAKING CHANGESΒ€
-
{% if_filled "my_slot" %}
tags were replaced with{{ component_vars.is_filled.my_slot }}
variables. -
Simplified settings -
slot_context_behavior
andcontext_behavior
were merged. See the documentation for more details.
v0.67Β€
RefactorΒ€
- Changed the default way how context variables are resolved in slots. See the documentation for more details.
π¨π’ v0.50Β€
BREAKING CHANGESΒ€
-
{% component_block %}
is now{% component %}
, and{% component %}
blocks need an ending{% endcomponent %}
tag.The new
python manage.py upgradecomponent
command can be used to upgrade a directory (use--path
argument to point to each dir) of templates that use components to the new syntax automatically.This change is done to simplify the API in anticipation of a 1.0 release of django_components. After 1.0 we intend to be stricter with big changes like this in point releases.
v0.34Β€
FeatΒ€
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v0.28Β€
FeatΒ€
- 'implicit' slot filling and the
default
option forslot
tags.
v0.27Β€
FeatΒ€
- A second installable app
django_components.safer_staticfiles
. It provides the same behavior asdjango.contrib.staticfiles
but with extra security guarantees (more info below in Security Notes).
π¨π’ v0.26Β€
BREAKING CHANGESΒ€
-
Changed the syntax for
{% slot %}
tags. From now on, we separate defining a slot ({% slot %}
) from filling a slot with content ({% fill %}
). This means you will likely need to change a lot of slot tags to fill.We understand this is annoying, but it's the only way we can get support for nested slots that fill in other slots, which is a very nice feature to have access to. Hoping that this will feel worth it!
v0.22Β€
FeatΒ€
-
All files inside components subdirectores are autoimported to simplify setup.
An existing project might start to get
AlreadyRegistered
errors because of this. To solve this, either remove your custom loading of components, or set"autodiscover": False
insettings.COMPONENTS
.
v0.17Β€
BREAKING CHANGESΒ€
-
Renamed
Component.context
andComponent.template
toget_context_data
andget_template_name
. The old methods still work, but emit a deprecation warning.This change was done to sync naming with Django's class based views, and make using django-components more familiar to Django users.
Component.context
andComponent.template
will be removed when version 1.0 is released.
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Read on to learn about all the exciting details and configuration possibilities!
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- Advanced
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- Release notes
This guide is for you if you're upgrating django_components to v0.100 or later from older versions.
In version 0.100, we changed how components' static JS and CSS files are handled. See more in the \"Static files\" section.
Migration steps:
- Remove
django_components.safer_staticfiles
fromINSTALLED_APPS
in yoursettings.py
, and replace it withdjango.contrib.staticfiles
.
Before:
INSTALLED_APPS = [\n \"django.contrib.admin\",\n ...\n # \"django.contrib.staticfiles\", # <-- ADD\n \"django_components\",\n \"django_components.safer_staticfiles\", # <-- REMOVE\n]\n
After:
INSTALLED_APPS = [\n \"django.contrib.admin\",\n ...\n \"django.contrib.staticfiles\",\n \"django_components\",\n]\n
- Add
STATICFILES_FINDERS
tosettings.py
, and adddjango_components.finders.ComponentsFileSystemFinder
:
STATICFILES_FINDERS = [\n # Default finders\n \"django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder\",\n \"django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder\",\n # Django components\n \"django_components.finders.ComponentsFileSystemFinder\", # <-- ADDED\n]\n
- Add
COMPONENTS.dirs
tosettings.py
.
If you previously defined
STATICFILES_DIRS
, move only those directories fromSTATICFILES_DIRS
that point to components directories, and keep the rest.E.g. if you have
STATICFILES_DIRS
like this:STATICFILES_DIRS = [\n BASE_DIR / \"components\", # <-- MOVE\n BASE_DIR / \"myapp\" / \"components\", # <-- MOVE\n BASE_DIR / \"assets\",\n]\n
Then first two entries point to components dirs, whereas
/assets
points to non-component static files. In this case move only the first two paths:COMPONENTS = {\n \"dirs\": [\n BASE_DIR / \"components\", # <-- MOVED\n BASE_DIR / \"myapp\" / \"components\", # <-- MOVED\n ],\n}\n\nSTATICFILES_DIRS = [\n BASE_DIR / \"assets\",\n]\n
Moreover, if you defined app-level component directories in
STATICFILES_DIRS
before, you can now define as a RELATIVE path inapp_dirs
:
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- Prevent rendering Slot tags during fill discovery stage to fix a case when a component inside a slot fill tried to access provided data too early.
- Ensure consistent order of scripts in
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Installation changes:
- If your components include JS or CSS, you now must use the middleware and add django-components' URLs to your
urlpatterns
(See \"Adding support for JS and CSS\")
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Component typing signature changed from
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-
If you rendered a component A with
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- Intellisense and mypy validation for settings:
Instead of defining the
COMPONENTS
settings as a plain dict, you can useComponentsSettings
:# settings.py\nfrom django_components import ComponentsSettings\n\nCOMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n autodiscover=True,\n ...\n)\n
- Use
get_component_dirs()
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to get the same list of dirs / files that would be imported byautodiscover()
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-
For advanced use cases, use can omit the middleware and instead manage component JS and CSS dependencies yourself with
render_dependencies
-
The
ComponentRegistry
settingsRegistrySettings
were lowercased to align with the global settings: RegistrySettings.CONTEXT_BEHAVIOR
->RegistrySettings.context_behavior
RegistrySettings.TAG_FORMATTER
->RegistrySettings.tag_formatter
The old uppercase settings
CONTEXT_BEHAVIOR
andTAG_FORMATTER
are deprecated and will be removed in v1.-
The setting
reload_on_template_change
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The setting
forbidden_static_files
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-
The combined tag was removed to encourage the best practice of putting JS scripts at the end of
<body>
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-
-
The undocumented keyword arg
preload
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and{% component_css_dependencies %}
tags was removed. This will be replaced with HTML fragment support.
- Allow using forward slash (
/
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.
{% component_dependencies %}
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tags, the JS and CSS will now be, by default, inserted at the end of<body>
and at the end of<head>
respectively.
- Fills can now be defined within loops (
{% for %}
) or other tags (like{% with %}
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.
Following is now possible
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- If you need to access the data or the default content of a default fill, you can set the
name
kwarg to\"default\"
.
Previously, a default fill would be defined simply by omitting the
{% fill %}
tags:{% component \"child\" %}\n Hello world\n{% endcomponent %}\n
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name=\"default\"
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- When inside
get_context_data()
or other component methods, the default fill can now be accessed asComponent.input.slots[\"default\"]
, e.g.:
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default
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image_src
orname_initials
variables, theimage
slot is optional. But if neither of those are provided, you MUST fill theimage
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- The slot fills that were passed to a component and which can be accessed as
Component.input.slots
can now be passed through the Django template, e.g. as inputs to other tags.
Internally, django-components handles slot fills as functions.
Previously, if you tried to pass a slot fill within a template, Django would try to call it as a function.
Now, something like this is possible:
class MyTable(Component):\n def get_context_data(self, *args, **kwargs):\n return {\n \"child_slot\": self.input.slots[\"child_slot\"],\n }\n\n template: \"\"\"\n <div>\n {% component \"child\" content=child_slot / %}\n </div>\n \"\"\"\n
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{% slot %}
and{% fill %}
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is_filled
variable (and the{{ component_vars.is_filled }}
context variable) now returnsFalse
when you try to access a slot name which has not been defined:
Before:
{{ component_vars.is_filled.header }} -> True\n{{ component_vars.is_filled.footer }} -> False\n{{ component_vars.is_filled.nonexist }} -> \"\" (empty string)\n
After:
{{ component_vars.is_filled.header }} -> True\n{{ component_vars.is_filled.footer }} -> False\n{{ component_vars.is_filled.nonexist }} -> False\n
-
Components no longer raise an error if there are extra slot fills
-
Components will raise error when a slot is doubly-filled.
E.g. if we have a component with a default slot:
{% slot name=\"content\" default / %}\n
Now there is two ways how we can target this slot: Either using
name=\"default\"
orname=\"content\"
.In case you specify BOTH, the component will raise an error:
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django_components.safer_staticfiles
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Installation changes:
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STATICFILES_DIRS
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. -
You now must define
STATICFILES_FINDERS
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See here how to migrate your settings.py
- Instead of defining component directories in
- Beside the top-level
/components
directory, you can now define also app-level components dirs, e.g.[app]/components
(SeeCOMPONENTS.app_dirs
).
- When you call
as_view()
on a component instance, that instance will be passed toView.as_view()
- Fixed template caching. You can now also manually create cached templates with
cached_template()
-
The previously undocumented
get_template
was made private. -
In it's place, there's a new
get_template
, which supersedesget_template_string
(will be removed in v1). The newget_template
is the same asget_template_string
, except it allows to return either a string or a Template instance. -
You now must use only one of
template
,get_template
,template_name
, orget_template_name
.
-
Run-time type validation for Python 3.11+ - If the
Component
class is typed, e.g.Component[Args, Kwargs, ...]
, the args, kwargs, slots, and data are validated against the given types. (See Runtime input validation with types) -
Render hooks - Set
on_render_before
andon_render_after
methods onComponent
to intercept or modify the template or context before rendering, or the rendered result afterwards. (See Component hooks) -
component_vars.is_filled
context variable can be accessed from withinon_render_before
andon_render_after
hooks asself.is_filled.my_slot
- Added support for dynamic components, where the component name is passed as a variable. (See Dynamic components)
- Changed
Component.input
to raiseRuntimeError
if accessed outside of render context. Previously it returnedNone
if unset.
-
django_components now automatically configures Django to support multi-line tags. (See Multi-line tags)
-
New setting
reload_on_template_change
. Set this toTrue
to reload the dev server on changes to component template files. (See Reload dev server on component file changes)
-
Spread operator
...dict
inside template tags. (See Spread operator) -
Use template tags inside string literals in component inputs. (See Use template tags inside component inputs)
-
Dynamic slots, fills and provides - The
name
argument for these can now be a variable, a template expression, or via spread operator -
Component library authors can now configure
CONTEXT_BEHAVIOR
andTAG_FORMATTER
settings independently from user settings.
Component
class is no longer a subclass ofView
. To configure theView
class, set theComponent.View
nested class. HTTP methods likeget
orpost
can still be defined directly onComponent
class, andComponent.as_view()
internally callsComponent.View.as_view()
. (See Modifying the View class)
-
The inputs (args, kwargs, slots, context, ...) that you pass to
Component.render()
can be accessed from withinget_context_data
,get_template
andget_template_name
viaself.input
. (See Accessing data passed to the component) -
Typing:
Component
class supports generics that specify types forComponent.render
(See Adding type hints with Generics)
-
All tags (
component
,slot
,fill
, ...) now support \"self-closing\" or \"inline\" form, where you can omit the closing tag:{# Before #}\n{% component \"button\" %}{% endcomponent %}\n{# After #}\n{% component \"button\" / %}\n
-
All tags now support the \"dictionary key\" or \"aggregate\" syntax (
kwarg:key=val
):{% component \"button\" attrs:class=\"hidden\" %}\n
-
You can change how the components are written in the template with TagFormatter.
The default is
django_components.component_formatter
:{% component \"button\" href=\"...\" disabled %}\n Click me!\n{% endcomponent %}\n
While
django_components.shorthand_component_formatter
allows you to write components like so:{% button href=\"...\" disabled %}\n Click me!\n{% endbutton %}\n
-
Autodiscovery module resolution changed. Following undocumented behavior was removed:
-
Previously, autodiscovery also imported any
[app]/components.py
files, and usedSETTINGS_MODULE
to search for component dirs.To migrate from:
-
[app]/components.py
- Define each module inCOMPONENTS.libraries
setting, or import each module inside theAppConfig.ready()
hook in respectiveapps.py
files. -
SETTINGS_MODULE
- Define component dirs usingSTATICFILES_DIRS
-
-
Previously, autodiscovery handled relative files in
STATICFILES_DIRS
. To align with Django,STATICFILES_DIRS
now must be full paths (Django docs).
-
- The order of arguments to
render_to_response
has changed, to align with the (now public)render
method ofComponent
class.
-
Component.render()
is public and documented -
Slots passed
render_to_response
andrender
can now be rendered also as functions.
- Vue-like provide/inject with the
{% provide %}
tag andinject()
method.
- Default value for the
COMPONENTS.context_behavior
setting was changes from\"isolated\"
to\"django\"
. If you did not set this value explicitly before, this may be a breaking change. See the rationale for change here.
-
The syntax for accessing default slot content has changed from
{% fill \"my_slot\" as \"alias\" %}\n {{ alias.default }}\n{% endfill %}\n
to
{% fill \"my_slot\" default=\"alias\" %}\n {{ alias }}\n{% endfill %}\n
-
{% html_attrs %}
tag for formatting data as HTML attributes -
prefix:key=val
construct for passing dicts to components
-
{% if_filled \"my_slot\" %}
tags were replaced with{{ component_vars.is_filled.my_slot }}
variables. -
Simplified settings -
slot_context_behavior
andcontext_behavior
were merged. See the documentation for more details.
- Changed the default way how context variables are resolved in slots. See the documentation for more details.
-
{% component_block %}
is now{% component %}
, and{% component %}
blocks need an ending{% endcomponent %}
tag.The new
python manage.py upgradecomponent
command can be used to upgrade a directory (use--path
argument to point to each dir) of templates that use components to the new syntax automatically.This change is done to simplify the API in anticipation of a 1.0 release of django_components. After 1.0 we intend to be stricter with big changes like this in point releases.
- Components as views, which allows you to handle requests and render responses from within a component. See the documentation for more details.
- 'implicit' slot filling and the
default
option forslot
tags.
- A second installable app
django_components.safer_staticfiles
. It provides the same behavior asdjango.contrib.staticfiles
but with extra security guarantees (more info below in Security Notes).
-
Changed the syntax for
{% slot %}
tags. From now on, we separate defining a slot ({% slot %}
) from filling a slot with content ({% fill %}
). This means you will likely need to change a lot of slot tags to fill.We understand this is annoying, but it's the only way we can get support for nested slots that fill in other slots, which is a very nice feature to have access to. Hoping that this will feel worth it!
-
All files inside components subdirectores are autoimported to simplify setup.
An existing project might start to get
AlreadyRegistered
errors because of this. To solve this, either remove your custom loading of components, or set\"autodiscover\": False
insettings.COMPONENTS
.
-
Renamed
Component.context
andComponent.template
toget_context_data
andget_template_name
. The old methods still work, but emit a deprecation warning.This change was done to sync naming with Django's class based views, and make using django-components more familiar to Django users.
Component.context
andComponent.template
will be removed when version 1.0 is released.
You can publish and share your components for others to use. Here are the steps to do so:
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Create a Django project with a similar structure:
project/\n |-- myapp/\n |-- __init__.py\n |-- apps.py\n |-- templates/\n |-- table/\n |-- table.py\n |-- table.js\n |-- table.css\n |-- table.html\n |-- menu.py <--- single-file component\n |-- templatetags/\n |-- __init__.py\n |-- mytags.py\n
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Create custom
Library
andComponentRegistry
instances inmytags.py
This will be the entrypoint for using the components inside Django templates.
Remember that Django requires the
Library
instance to be accessible under theregister
variable (See Django docs):from django.template import Library\nfrom django_components import ComponentRegistry, RegistrySettings\n\nregister = library = django.template.Library()\ncomp_registry = ComponentRegistry(\n library=library,\n settings=RegistrySettings(\n context_behavior=\"isolated\",\n tag_formatter=\"django_components.component_formatter\",\n ),\n)\n
As you can see above, this is also the place where we configure how our components should behave, using the
settings
argument. If omitted, default settings are used.For library authors, we recommend setting
context_behavior
to\"isolated\"
, so that the state cannot leak into the components, and so the components' behavior is configured solely through the inputs. This means that the components will be more predictable and easier to debug.Next, you can decide how will others use your components by setting the
tag_formatter
options.If omitted or set to
\"django_components.component_formatter\"
, your components will be used like this:{% component \"table\" items=items headers=headers %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
Or you can use
\"django_components.component_shorthand_formatter\"
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Or you can define a custom TagFormatter.
Either way, these settings will be scoped only to your components. So, in the user code, there may be components side-by-side that use different formatters:
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-
Write your components and register them with your instance of
ComponentRegistry
There's one difference when you are writing components that are to be shared, and that's that the components must be explicitly registered with your instance of
ComponentRegistry
from the previous step.For better user experience, you can also define the types for the args, kwargs, slots and data.
It's also a good idea to have a common prefix for your components, so they can be easily distinguished from users' components. In the example below, we use the prefix
my_
/My
.from typing import Dict, NotRequired, Optional, Tuple, TypedDict\n\nfrom django_components import Component, SlotFunc, register, types\n\nfrom myapp.templatetags.mytags import comp_registry\n\n# Define the types\nclass EmptyDict(TypedDict):\n pass\n\ntype MyMenuArgs = Tuple[int, str]\n\nclass MyMenuSlots(TypedDict):\n default: NotRequired[Optional[SlotFunc[EmptyDict]]]\n\nclass MyMenuProps(TypedDict):\n vertical: NotRequired[bool]\n klass: NotRequired[str]\n style: NotRequired[str]\n\n# Define the component\n# NOTE: Don't forget to set the `registry`!\n@register(\"my_menu\", registry=comp_registry)\nclass MyMenu(Component[MyMenuArgs, MyMenuProps, MyMenuSlots, Any, Any, Any]):\n def get_context_data(\n self,\n *args,\n attrs: Optional[Dict] = None,\n ):\n return {\n \"attrs\": attrs,\n }\n\n template: types.django_html = \"\"\"\n {# Load django_components template tags #}\n {% load component_tags %}\n\n <div {% html_attrs attrs class=\"my-menu\" %}>\n <div class=\"my-menu__content\">\n {% slot \"default\" default / %}\n </div>\n </div>\n \"\"\"\n
-
Import the components in
apps.py
Normally, users rely on autodiscovery and
COMPONENTS.dirs
to load the component files.Since you, as the library author, are not in control of the file system, it is recommended to load the components manually.
We recommend doing this in the
AppConfig.ready()
hook of yourapps.py
:from django.apps import AppConfig\n\nclass MyAppConfig(AppConfig):\n default_auto_field = \"django.db.models.BigAutoField\"\n name = \"myapp\"\n\n # This is the code that gets run when user adds myapp\n # to Django's INSTALLED_APPS\n def ready(self) -> None:\n # Import the components that you want to make available\n # inside the templates.\n from myapp.templates import (\n menu,\n table,\n )\n
Note that you can also include any other startup logic within
AppConfig.ready()
.
And that's it! The next step is to publish it.
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twine
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Notes on publishing:
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MANIFEST.in
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After the package has been published, all that remains is to install it in other django projects:
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Install the package:
pip install myapp django_components\n
-
Add the package to
INSTALLED_APPS
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-
Optionally add the template tags to the
builtins
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-
And, at last, you can use the components in your own project!
{% my_menu title=\"Abc...\" %}\n Hello World!\n{% endmy_menu %}\n
In previous examples you could repeatedly see us using
@register()
to \"register\" the components. In this section we dive deeper into what it actually means and how you can manage (add or remove) components.As a reminder, we may have a component like this:
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which we then render in the template as:
{% component \"calendar\" date=\"1970-01-01\" %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
As you can see,
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links up the component class with the{% component %}
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@register
decorator is a shortcut for working with theComponentRegistry
.ComponentRegistry
manages which components can be used in the template tags.Each
ComponentRegistry
instance is associated with an instance of Django'sLibrary
. And Libraries are inserted into Django template using the{% load %}
tags.The
@register
decorator accepts an optional kwargregistry
, which specifies, theComponentRegistry
to register components into. If omitted, the defaultComponentRegistry
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The default
ComponentRegistry
is associated with theLibrary
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If you are writing a component library to be shared with others, you may want to manage your own instance of
ComponentRegistry
and register components onto a differentLibrary
instance than the default one.The
Library
instance can be set at instantiation ofComponentRegistry
. If omitted, then the default Library instance from django_components is used.from django.template import Library\nfrom django_components import ComponentRegistry\n\nmy_library = Library(...)\nmy_registry = ComponentRegistry(library=my_library)\n
When you have defined your own
ComponentRegistry
, you can either register the components withmy_registry.register()
, or pass the registry to the@component.register()
decorator via theregistry
kwarg:from path.to.my.registry import my_registry\n\n@register(\"my_component\", registry=my_registry)\nclass MyComponent(Component):\n ...\n
NOTE: The Library instance can be accessed under
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attribute ofComponentRegistry
.When you are creating an instance of
ComponentRegistry
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context_behavior
-tag_formatter
from django.template import Library\nfrom django_components import ComponentRegistry, RegistrySettings\n\nregister = library = django.template.Library()\ncomp_registry = ComponentRegistry(\n library=library,\n settings=RegistrySettings(\n context_behavior=\"isolated\",\n tag_formatter=\"django_components.component_formatter\",\n ),\n)\n
These settings are the same as the ones you can set for django_components.
In fact, when you set
COMPONENT.tag_formatter
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.This makes it possible to have multiple registries with different settings in one projects, and makes sharing of component libraries possible.
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def on_render_before(\n self: Component,\n context: Context,\n template: Template\n) -> None:\n
Hook that runs just before the component's template is rendered.
You can use this hook to access or modify the context or the template:
def on_render_before(self, context, template) -> None:\n # Insert value into the Context\n context[\"from_on_before\"] = \":)\"\n\n # Append text into the Template\n template.nodelist.append(TextNode(\"FROM_ON_BEFORE\"))\n
on_render_after
def on_render_after(\n self: Component,\n context: Context,\n template: Template,\n content: str\n) -> None | str | SafeString:\n
Hook that runs just after the component's template was rendered. It receives the rendered output as the last argument.
You can use this hook to access the context or the template, but modifying them won't have any effect.
To override the content that gets rendered, you can return a string or SafeString from this hook:
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You can use hooks together with provide / inject to create components that accept a list of items via a slot.
In the example below, each
tab_item
component will be rendered on a separate tab page, but they are all defined in the default slot of thetabs
component.See here for how it was done
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New in version 0.80:
Django components supports the provide / inject or ContextProvider pattern with the combination of:
{% provide %}
taginject()
method of theComponent
class
Prop drilling refers to a scenario in UI development where you need to pass data through many layers of a component tree to reach the nested components that actually need the data.
Normally, you'd use props to send data from a parent component to its children. However, this straightforward method becomes cumbersome and inefficient if the data has to travel through many levels or if several components scattered at different depths all need the same piece of information.
This results in a situation where the intermediate components, which don't need the data for their own functioning, end up having to manage and pass along these props. This clutters the component tree and makes the code verbose and harder to manage.
A neat solution to avoid prop drilling is using the \"provide and inject\" technique.
With provide / inject, a parent component acts like a data hub for all its descendants. This setup allows any component, no matter how deeply nested it is, to access the required data directly from this centralized provider without having to messily pass props down the chain. This approach significantly cleans up the code and makes it easier to maintain.
This feature is inspired by Vue's Provide / Inject and React's Context / useContext.
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For examples of advanced uses of provide / inject, see this discussion.
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tag","text":"First we use the
{% provide %}
tag to define the data we want to \"provide\" (make available).{% provide \"my_data\" key=\"hi\" another=123 %}\n {% component \"child\" / %} <--- Can access \"my_data\"\n{% endprovide %}\n\n{% component \"child\" / %} <--- Cannot access \"my_data\"\n
Notice that the
provide
tag REQUIRES a name as a first argument. This is the key by which we can then access the data passed to this tag.provide
tag name must resolve to a valid identifier (AKA a valid Python variable name).Once you've set the name, you define the data you want to \"provide\" by passing it as keyword arguments. This is similar to how you pass data to the
{% with %}
tag.NOTE: Kwargs passed to
{% provide %}
are NOT added to the context. In the example below, the{{ key }}
won't render anything:{% provide \"my_data\" key=\"hi\" another=123 %}\n {{ key }}\n{% endprovide %}\n
Similarly to slots and fills, also provide's name argument can be set dynamically via a variable, a template expression, or a spread operator:
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inject()
method","text":"To \"inject\" (access) the data defined on the
provide
tag, you can use theinject()
method inside ofget_context_data()
.For a component to be able to \"inject\" some data, the component (
{% component %}
tag) must be nested inside the{% provide %}
tag.In the example from previous section, we've defined two kwargs:
key=\"hi\" another=123
. That means that if we now inject\"my_data\"
, we get an object with 2 attributes -key
andanother
.class ChildComponent(Component):\n def get_context_data(self):\n my_data = self.inject(\"my_data\")\n print(my_data.key) # hi\n print(my_data.another) # 123\n return {}\n
First argument to
inject
is the key (or name) of the provided data. This must match the string that you used in theprovide
tag. If no provider with given key is found,inject
raises aKeyError
.To avoid the error, you can pass a second argument to
inject
to which will act as a default value, similar todict.get(key, default)
:class ChildComponent(Component):\n def get_context_data(self):\n my_data = self.inject(\"invalid_key\", DEFAULT_DATA)\n assert my_data == DEFAUKT_DATA\n return {}\n
The instance returned from
inject()
is a subclass ofNamedTuple
, so the instance is immutable. This ensures that the data returned frominject
will always have all the keys that were passed to theprovide
tag.NOTE:
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works strictly only inget_context_data
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renders:
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If:
- Your components use JS and CSS via any of:
Component.css
Component.js
Component.Media.css
Component.Media.js
- And you use the
ComponentDependencyMiddleware
middleware
Then, by default, the components' JS and CSS will be automatically inserted into the HTML:
- CSS styles will be inserted at the end of the
<head>
- JS scripts will be inserted at the end of the
<body>
If you want to place the dependencies elsewhere in the HTML, you can override the locations by inserting following Django template tags:
{% component_js_dependencies %}
- Set new location(s) for JS scripts{% component_css_dependencies %}
- Set new location(s) for CSS styles
So if you have a component with JS and CSS:
from django_components import Component, types\n\nclass MyButton(Component):\n template: types.django_html = \"\"\"\n <button class=\"my-button\">\n Click me!\n </button>\n \"\"\"\n js: types.js = \"\"\"\n for (const btnEl of document.querySelectorAll(\".my-button\")) {\n btnEl.addEventListener(\"click\", () => {\n console.log(\"BUTTON CLICKED!\");\n });\n }\n \"\"\"\n css: types.css \"\"\"\n .my-button {\n background: green;\n }\n \"\"\"\n\n class Media:\n js = [\"/extra/script.js\"]\n css = [\"/extra/style.css\"]\n
Then the JS from
MyButton.js
andMyButton.Media.js
will be rendered at the default place, or in{% component_js_dependencies %}
.And the CSS from
MyButton.css
andMyButton.Media.css
will be rendered at the default place, or in{% component_css_dependencies %}
.And if you don't specify
{% component_dependencies %}
tags, it is the equivalent of:
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ComponentDependencyMiddleware
is a Django middleware designed to manage and inject CSS / JS dependencies of rendered components dynamically. It ensures that only the necessary stylesheets and scripts are loaded in your HTML responses, based on the components used in your Django templates.To set it up, add the middleware to your
MIDDLEWARE
insettings.py
:
"},{"location":"concepts/advanced/rendering_js_css/#render_dependencies-and-rendering-js-css-without-the-middleware","title":"MIDDLEWARE = [\n # ... other middleware classes ...\n 'django_components.middleware.ComponentDependencyMiddleware'\n # ... other middleware classes ...\n]\n
render_dependencies
and rendering JS / CSS without the middleware","text":"For most scenarios, using the
ComponentDependencyMiddleware
middleware will be just fine.However, this section is for you if you want to:
- Render HTML that will NOT be sent as a server response
- Insert pre-rendered HTML into another component
- Render HTML fragments (partials)
Every time there is an HTML string that has parts which were rendered using components, and any of those components has JS / CSS, then this HTML string MUST be processed with
render_dependencies()
.It is actually
"},{"location":"concepts/advanced/rendering_js_css/#render-js-css-without-the-middleware","title":"Render JS / CSS without the middleware","text":"render_dependencies()
that finds all used components in the HTML string, and inserts the component's JS and CSS into{% component_dependencies %}
tags, or at the default locations.The truth is that the
ComponentDependencyMiddleware
middleware just callsrender_dependencies()
, passing in the HTML content. So if you render a template that contained{% component %}
tags, you MUST pass the result throughrender_dependencies()
. And the middleware is just one of the options.Here is how you can achieve the same, without the middleware, using
render_dependencies()
:from django.template.base import Template\nfrom django.template.context import Context\nfrom django_component import render_dependencies\n\ntemplate = Template(\"\"\"\n {% load component_tags %}\n <!doctype html>\n <html>\n <head>\n <title>MyPage</title>\n </head>\n <body>\n <main>\n {% component \"my_button\" %}\n Click me!\n {% endcomponent %}\n </main>\n </body>\n </html>\n\"\"\")\n\nrendered = template.render(Context())\nrendered = render_dependencies(rendered)\n
Same applies if you render a template using Django's
django.shortcuts.render
:from django.shortcuts import render\n\ndef my_view(request):\n rendered = render(request, \"pages/home.html\")\n rendered = render_dependencies(rendered)\n return rendered\n
Alternatively, when you render HTML with
Component.render()
orComponent.render_to_response()
, these, by default, callrender_dependencies()
for you, so you don't have to:
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In previous section we've shown that
render_dependencies()
does NOT need to be called when you render a component viaComponent.render()
.API of django_components makes it possible to compose components in a \"React-like\" way, where we pre-render a piece of HTML and then insert it into a larger structure.
To do this, you must add
render_dependencies=False
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Why is
render_dependencies=False
required?This is a technical limitation of the current implementation.
As mentioned earlier, each time we call
Component.render()
, we also callrender_dependencies()
.However, there is a problem here - When we call
render_dependencies()
insideCardActions.render()
, we extract and REMOVE the info on components' JS and CSS from the HTML. But the template ofCardActions
contains no{% component_depedencies %}
tags, and nor<head>
nor<body>
HTML tags. So the component's JS and CSS will NOT be inserted, and will be lost.To work around this, you must set
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when rendering pieces of HTML withComponent.render()
and inserting them into larger structures.- Every time you render HTML that contained components, you have to call
render_dependencies()
on the rendered output. - There are several ways to call
render_dependencies()
:- Using the
ComponentDependencyMiddleware
middleware - Rendering the HTML by calling
Component.render()
withrender_dependencies=True
(default) - Rendering the HTML by calling
Component.render_to_response()
(always renders dependencies) - Directly passing rendered HTML to
render_dependencies()
- Using the
- If you pre-render one component to pass it into another, the pre-rendered component must be rendered with
render_dependencies=False
.
New in version 0.89
By default, components are rendered using the pair of
{% component %}
/{% endcomponent %}
template tags:{% component \"button\" href=\"...\" disabled %}\nClick me!\n{% endcomponent %}\n\n{# or #}\n\n{% component \"button\" href=\"...\" disabled / %}\n
You can change this behaviour in the settings under the
COMPONENTS.tag_formatter
.For example, if you set the tag formatter to
django_components.component_shorthand_formatter
then the components' names will be used as the template tags:
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django_components provides following predefined TagFormatters:
ComponentFormatter
(django_components.component_formatter
)
Default
Uses the
component
andendcomponent
tags, and the component name is gives as the first positional argument.Example as block:
{% component \"button\" href=\"...\" %}\n {% fill \"content\" %}\n ...\n {% endfill %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
Example as inlined tag:
{% component \"button\" href=\"...\" / %}\n
ShorthandComponentFormatter
(django_components.component_shorthand_formatter
)
Uses the component name as start tag, and
end<component_name>
as an end tag.Example as block:
{% button href=\"...\" %}\n Click me!\n{% endbutton %}\n
Example as inlined tag:
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First, let's discuss how TagFormatters work, and how components are rendered in django_components.
When you render a component with
{% component %}
(or your own tag), the following happens:component
must be registered as a Django's template tag- Django triggers django_components's tag handler for tag
component
. - The tag handler passes the tag contents for pre-processing to
TagFormatter.parse()
.
So if you render this:
{% component \"button\" href=\"...\" disabled %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
Then
TagFormatter.parse()
will receive a following input:[\"component\", '\"button\"', 'href=\"...\"', 'disabled']\n
TagFormatter
extracts the component name and the remaining input.
So, given the above,
TagFormatter.parse()
returns the following:TagResult(\n component_name=\"button\",\n tokens=['href=\"...\"', 'disabled']\n)\n
- The tag handler resumes, using the tokens returned from
TagFormatter
.
So, continuing the example, at this point the tag handler practically behaves as if you rendered:
{% component href=\"...\" disabled %}\n
- Tag handler looks up the component
button
, and passes the args, kwargs, and slots to it.
TagFormatter
handles following parts of the process above:-
Generates start/end tags, given a component. This is what you then call from within your template as
{% component %}
. -
When you
{% component %}
, tag formatter pre-processes the tag contents, so it can link back the custom template tag to the right component.
To do so, subclass from
TagFormatterABC
and implement following method:start_tag
end_tag
parse
For example, this is the implementation of
ShorthandComponentFormatter
class ShorthandComponentFormatter(TagFormatterABC):\n # Given a component name, generate the start template tag\n def start_tag(self, name: str) -> str:\n return name # e.g. 'button'\n\n # Given a component name, generate the start template tag\n def end_tag(self, name: str) -> str:\n return f\"end{name}\" # e.g. 'endbutton'\n\n # Given a tag, e.g.\n # `{% button href=\"...\" disabled %}`\n #\n # The parser receives:\n # `['button', 'href=\"...\"', 'disabled']`\n def parse(self, tokens: List[str]) -> TagResult:\n tokens = [*tokens]\n name = tokens.pop(0)\n return TagResult(\n name, # e.g. 'button'\n tokens # e.g. ['href=\"...\"', 'disabled']\n )\n
That's it! And once your
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is ready, don't forget to update the settings!New in version 0.92
The
Component
class optionally accepts type parameters that allow you to specify the types of args, kwargs, slots, and data:class Button(Component[Args, Kwargs, Slots, Data, JsData, CssData]):\n ...\n
Args
- Must be aTuple
orAny
Kwargs
- Must be aTypedDict
orAny
Data
- Must be aTypedDict
orAny
Slots
- Must be aTypedDict
orAny
Here's a full example:
from typing import NotRequired, Tuple, TypedDict, SlotContent, SlotFunc\n\n# Positional inputs\nArgs = Tuple[int, str]\n\n# Kwargs inputs\nclass Kwargs(TypedDict):\n variable: str\n another: int\n maybe_var: NotRequired[int] # May be ommited\n\n# Data returned from `get_context_data`\nclass Data(TypedDict):\n variable: str\n\n# The data available to the `my_slot` scoped slot\nclass MySlotData(TypedDict):\n value: int\n\n# Slots\nclass Slots(TypedDict):\n # Use SlotFunc for slot functions.\n # The generic specifies the `data` dictionary\n my_slot: NotRequired[SlotFunc[MySlotData]]\n # SlotContent == Union[str, SafeString]\n another_slot: SlotContent\n\nclass Button(Component[Args, Kwargs, Slots, Data, JsData, CssData]):\n def get_context_data(self, variable, another):\n return {\n \"variable\": variable,\n }\n
When you then call
Component.render
orComponent.render_to_response
, you will get type hints:
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On Python 3.8-3.10, use
typing_extensions
from typing_extensions import TypedDict, NotRequired\n
Additionally on Python 3.8-3.9, also import
annotations
:from __future__ import annotations\n
Moreover, on 3.10 and less, you may not be able to use
NotRequired
, and instead you will need to mark either all keys are required, or all keys as optional, using TypeDict'stotal
kwarg.See PEP-655 for more info.
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This is not supported with the typed components.
As a workaround:
- For
*args
, set a positional argument that accepts a list of values:
# Tuple of one member of list of strings\nArgs = Tuple[List[str]]\n
- For
*kwargs
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To declare that a component accepts no Args, Kwargs, etc, you can use
EmptyTuple
andEmptyDict
types:
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New in version 0.96
NOTE: Kwargs, slots, and data validation is supported only for Python >=3.11
In Python 3.11 and later, when you specify the component types, you will get also runtime validation of the inputs you pass to
Component.render
orComponent.render_to_response
.So, using the example from before, if you ignored the type errors and still ran the following code:
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This would raise a
TypeError
:Component 'Button' expected positional argument at index 0 to be <class 'int'>, got 1.25 of type <class 'float'>\n
In case you need to skip these errors, you can either set the faulty member to
Any
, e.g.:# Changed `int` to `Any`\nArgs = Tuple[Any, str]\n
Or you can replace
Args
withAny
altogether, to skip the validation of args:# Replaced `Args` with `Any`\nclass Button(Component[Any, Kwargs, Slots, Data, JsData, CssData]):\n ...\n
Same applies to kwargs, data, and slots.
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self.input
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get_template_name
get_template
on_render_before
on_render_after
self.input
is only defined during the execution ofComponent.render
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when called outside of this context.self.input
has the same fields as the input toComponent.render
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NOTE: The slots in
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{% component %}
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. Normally, we use the@register
decorator for that:from django_components import Component, register\n\n@register(\"calendar\")\nclass Calendar(Component):\n ...\n
But for the component to be registered, the code needs to be executed - the file needs to be imported as a module.
One way to do that is by importing all your components in
apps.py
:from django.apps import AppConfig\n\nclass MyAppConfig(AppConfig):\n name = \"my_app\"\n\n def ready(self) -> None:\n from components.card.card import Card\n from components.list.list import List\n from components.menu.menu import Menu\n from components.button.button import Button\n ...\n
However, there's a simpler way!
By default, the Python files in the
COMPONENTS.dirs
directories (and app-level[app]/components/
) are auto-imported in order to auto-register the components.Autodiscovery occurs when Django is loaded, during the
AppConfig.ready
hook of theapps.py
file.If you are using autodiscovery, keep a few points in mind:
- Avoid defining any logic on the module-level inside the
components
dir, that you would not want to run anyway. - Components inside the auto-imported files still need to be registered with
@register
p - Auto-imported component files must be valid Python modules, they must use suffix
.py
, and module name should follow PEP-8.
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To get the same list of modules that
autodiscover()
would return, but without importing them, useget_component_files()
:
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By default, context variables are passed down the template as in regular Django - deeper scopes can access the variables from the outer scopes. So if you have several nested forloops, then inside the deep-most loop you can access variables defined by all previous loops.
With this in mind, the
{% component %}
tag behaves similarly to{% include %}
tag - inside the component tag, you can access all variables that were defined outside of it.And just like with
{% include %}
, if you don't want a specific component template to have access to the parent context, addonly
to the{% component %}
tag:{% component \"calendar\" date=\"2015-06-19\" only / %}\n
NOTE:
{% csrf_token %}
tags need access to the top-level context, and they will not function properly if they are rendered in a component that is called with theonly
modifier.If you find yourself using the
only
modifier often, you can set the context_behavior option to\"isolated\"
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Assuming that the rendering context has variables such as
date
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to access them from withinget_context_data
. Here's how you might implement it:class Calender(Component):\n\n ...\n\n def get_context_data(self):\n outer_field = self.outer_context[\"date\"]\n return {\n \"date\": outer_fields,\n }\n
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This has two modes:
-
\"django\"
The default Django template behavior.
Inside the
{% fill %}
tag, the context variables you can access are a union of:- All the variables that were OUTSIDE the fill tag, including any\\
{% with %}
tags. - Any loops (
{% for ... %}
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tag is part of. - Data returned from
Component.get_context_data()
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-
\"isolated\"
Similar behavior to Vue or React, this is useful if you want to make sure that components don't accidentally access variables defined outside of the component.
Inside the
{% fill %}
tag, you can ONLY access variables from 2 places:- Any loops (
{% for ... %}
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tag is part of. Component.get_context_data()
of the component which defined the template (AKA the \"root\" component).
- Any loops (
Warning
Notice that the component whose
get_context_data()
we use inside{% fill %}
is NOT the same across the two modes!Consider this example:
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-
\"django\"
-my_var
has access to data fromget_context_data()
of bothInner
andOuter
. If there are variables defined in both, thenInner
overshadowsOuter
. -
\"isolated\"
-my_var
has access to data fromget_context_data()
of ONLYOuter
.
Given this template:
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Then if
get_context_data()
of the component\"my_comp\"
returns following data:{ \"my_var\": 456 }\n
Then the template will be rendered as:
456 # my_var\nfeta # cheese\n
Because
\"my_comp\"
overshadows the outer variable\"my_var\"
, so{{ my_var }}
equals456
.And variable
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Then if
get_context_data()
of the component\"my_comp\"
returns following data:{ \"my_var\": 456 }\n
Then the template will be rendered as:
123 # my_var\n # cheese\n
Because variables
\"my_var\"
and\"cheese\"
are searched only insideRootComponent.get_context_data()
. But since\"cheese\"
is not defined there, it's empty.Info
Notice that the variables defined with the
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Note: Since 0.92, Component no longer subclasses View. To configure the View class, set the nested
Component.View
classComponents can now be used as views:
-
Components define the
Component.as_view()
class method that can be used the same asView.as_view()
. -
By default, you can define GET, POST or other HTTP handlers directly on the Component, same as you do with View. For example, you can override
get
andpost
to handle GET and POST requests, respectively. -
In addition,
Component
now has arender_to_response
method that renders the component template based on the provided context and slots' data and returns anHttpResponse
object.
Here's an example of a calendar component defined as a view:
# In a file called [project root]/components/calendar.py\nfrom django_components import Component, ComponentView, register\n\n@register(\"calendar\")\nclass Calendar(Component):\n\n template = \"\"\"\n <div class=\"calendar-component\">\n <div class=\"header\">\n {% slot \"header\" / %}\n </div>\n <div class=\"body\">\n Today's date is <span>{{ date }}</span>\n </div>\n </div>\n \"\"\"\n\n # Handle GET requests\n def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):\n context = {\n \"date\": request.GET.get(\"date\", \"2020-06-06\"),\n }\n slots = {\n \"header\": \"Calendar header\",\n }\n # Return HttpResponse with the rendered content\n return self.render_to_response(\n context=context,\n slots=slots,\n )\n
Then, to use this component as a view, you should create a
urls.py
file in your components directory, and add a path to the component's view:# In a file called [project root]/components/urls.py\nfrom django.urls import path\nfrom components.calendar.calendar import Calendar\n\nurlpatterns = [\n path(\"calendar/\", Calendar.as_view()),\n]\n
Component.as_view()
is a shorthand for callingView.as_view()
and passing the component instance as one of the arguments.Remember to add
__init__.py
to your components directory, so that Django can find theurls.py
file.Finally, include the component's urls in your project's
urls.py
file:# In a file called [project root]/urls.py\nfrom django.urls import include, path\n\nurlpatterns = [\n path(\"components/\", include(\"components.urls\")),\n]\n
Note: Slots content are automatically escaped by default to prevent XSS attacks. To disable escaping, set
escape_slots_content=False
in therender_to_response
method. If you do so, you should make sure that any content you pass to the slots is safe, especially if it comes from user input.If you're planning on passing an HTML string, check Django's use of
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.The View class that handles the requests is defined on
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Component
class, like so:class MyComponent(Component):\n def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):\n return self.render_to_response(\n context={\n \"date\": request.GET.get(\"date\", \"2020-06-06\"),\n },\n )\n\n def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs) -> HttpResponse:\n variable = request.POST.get(\"variable\")\n return self.render_to_response(\n kwargs={\"variable\": variable}\n )\n
Then the request is still handled by
Component.View.get()
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points toComponent.get()
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If you want to define your own
View
class, you need to:- Set the class as
Component.View
- Subclass from
ComponentView
, so the View instance has access to the component instance.
In the example below, we added extra logic into
View.setup()
.Note that the POST handler is still defined at the top. This is because
View
subclassesComponentView
, which defines thepost()
method that callsComponent.post()
.If you were to overwrite the
View.post()
method, thenComponent.post()
would be ignored.
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New in version 0.81
Components can be rendered outside of Django templates, calling them as regular functions (\"React-style\").
The component class defines
render
andrender_to_response
class methods. These methods accept positional args, kwargs, and slots, offering the same flexibility as the{% component %}
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Renders:
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-
args
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-
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-
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whereslot_content
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","text":"When rendering components with slots in
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context
- Django's Context available to the Slot Node.data
- Data passed to the{% slot %}
tag. See Scoped Slots.slot_ref
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First load the
component_tags
tag library, then use thecomponent_[js/css]_dependencies
andcomponent
tags to render the component to the page.{% load component_tags %}\n<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n <title>My example calendar</title>\n {% component_css_dependencies %}\n</head>\n<body>\n {% component \"calendar\" date=\"2015-06-19\" %}{% endcomponent %}\n {% component_js_dependencies %}\n</body>\n<html>\n
NOTE: Instead of writing
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The output from the above template will be:
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As seen in the getting started example, to associate HTML/JS/CSS files with a component, you set them as
template_name
,Media.js
andMedia.css
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In the example above, the files are defined relative to the directory where
component.py
is.Alternatively, you can specify the file paths relative to the directories set in
COMPONENTS.dirs
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COMPONENTS.dirs
contains path[project root]/components
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You can define which stylesheets will be associated with which CSS Media types. You do so by defining CSS files as a dictionary.
See the corresponding Django Documentation.
Again, you can set either a single file or a list of files per media type:
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class MyComponent(Component):\n class Media:\n css = {\n \"all\": [\"path/to/style1.css\", \"path/to/style2.css\"],\n \"print\": [\"path/to/style3.css\", \"path/to/style4.css\"],\n }\n
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(__fspath__
method)SafeData
(__html__
method)Callable
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In the example above, you could see that when we used
mark_safe
to mark a string as aSafeString
, we had to define the full<script>
/<link>
tag.This is an extension of Django's Paths as objects feature, where \"safe\" strings are taken as is, and accessed only at render time.
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COMPONENTS.dirs
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<script>
or<link>
tag for individual paths:
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<link>
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attribute.Normally, the JS and CSS paths are passed to
Media
class, which decides how the paths are resolved and how the<link>
and<script>
tags are constructed.To change how the tags are constructed, you can override the
Media.render_js
andMedia.render_css
methods:from django.forms.widgets import Media\nfrom django_components import Component, register\n\nclass MyMedia(Media):\n # Same as original Media.render_js, except\n # the `<script>` tag has also `type=\"module\"`\n def render_js(self):\n tags = []\n for path in self._js:\n if hasattr(path, \"__html__\"):\n tag = path.__html__()\n else:\n tag = format_html(\n '<script type=\"module\" src=\"{}\"></script>',\n self.absolute_path(path)\n )\n return tags\n\n@register(\"calendar\")\nclass Calendar(Component):\n template_name = \"calendar/template.html\"\n\n class Media:\n css = \"calendar/style.css\"\n js = \"calendar/script.js\"\n\n # Override the behavior of Media class\n media_class = MyMedia\n
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after the class creation (__new__
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You can use the
html_attrs
tag to render HTML attributes, given a dictionary of values.So if you have a template:
<div class=\"{{ classes }}\" data-id=\"{{ my_id }}\">\n</div>\n
You can simplify it with
html_attrs
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where
attrs
is:attrs = {\n \"class\": classes,\n \"data-id\": my_id,\n}\n
This feature is inspired by
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None
orFalse
are NOT rendered.So given this input:
attrs = {\n \"class\": \"text-green\",\n \"required\": False,\n \"data-id\": None,\n}\n
And template:
<div {% html_attrs attrs %}>\n</div>\n
Then this renders:
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In HTML, boolean attributes are usually rendered with no value. Consider the example below where the first button is disabled and the second is not:
<button disabled>Click me!</button> <button>Click me!</button>\n
HTML rendering with
html_attrs
tag orattributes_to_string
works the same way, wherekey=True
is rendered simply askey
, andkey=False
is not render at all.So given this input:
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And template:
<div {% html_attrs attrs %}>\n</div>\n
Then this renders:
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Sometimes you may want to specify default values for attributes. You can pass a second argument (or kwarg
defaults
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In the example above, if
attrs
contains e.g. theclass
key,html_attrs
will render:class=\"{{ attrs.class }}\"
Otherwise,
html_attrs
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For the
class
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So if we have a variable
attrs
:attrs = {\n \"class\": \"my-class pa-4\",\n}\n
And on
html_attrs
tag, we set the keyclass
:<div {% html_attrs attrs class=\"some-class\" %}>\n</div>\n
Then these will be merged and rendered as:
<div data-value=\"my-class pa-4 some-class\"></div>\n
To simplify merging of variables, you can supply the same key multiple times, and these will be all joined together:
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attrs
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-
Both
attrs
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attrs
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Then:
- Empty tag
{% html_attr %}
renders (empty string):
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{% html_attr class=\"some-class\" class=class_from_var data-id=\"123\" %}
renders:
class=\"some-class from-var\" data-id=\"123\"
- Only attrs
{% html_attr attrs %}
renders:
class=\"from-attrs\" type=\"submit\"
- Attrs as kwarg
{% html_attr attrs=attrs %}
renders:
class=\"from-attrs\" type=\"submit\"
- Only defaults (as kwarg)
{% html_attr defaults=defaults %}
renders:
class=\"from-defaults\" role=\"button\"
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prefix:key=value
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renders:
class=\"from-attrs\" type=\"submit\"
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prefix:key=value
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renders:
class=\"from-defaults\" role=\"button\"
- All together (1) - attrs and defaults as positional args:
{% html_attrs attrs defaults class=\"added_class\" class=class_from_var data-id=123 %}
renders:
class=\"from-attrs added_class from-var\" type=\"submit\" role=\"button\" data-id=123
- All together (2) - attrs and defaults as kwargs args:
{% html_attrs class=\"added_class\" class=class_from_var data-id=123 attrs=attrs defaults=defaults %}
renders:
class=\"from-attrs added_class from-var\" type=\"submit\" role=\"button\" data-id=123
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{% html_attrs attrs defaults:class=\"default-class\" class=\"added_class\" class=class_from_var data-id=123 %}
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Note: For readability, we've split the tags across multiple lines.
Inside
MyComp
, we defined a default attributedefaults:class=\"pa-4 text-red\"
So if
attrs
includes keyclass
, the default above will be ignored.MyComp
also definesclass
key twice. It means that whether theclass
attribute is taken fromattrs
ordefaults
, the twoclass
values will be appended to it.So by default,
MyComp
renders:<div class=\"pa-4 text-red my-comp-date extra-class\" data-id=\"123\">...</div>\n
Next, let's consider what will be rendered when we call
MyComp
fromParent
component.MyComp
accepts aattrs
dictionary, that is passed tohtml_attrs
, so the contents of that dictionary are rendered as the HTML attributes.In
Parent
, we make use of passing dictionary key-value pairs as kwargs to define individual attributes as if they were regular kwargs.So all kwargs that start with
attrs:
will be collected into anattrs
dict.attrs:class=\"pa-0 border-solid border-red\"\n attrs:data-json=json_data\n attrs:@click=\"(e) => onClick(e, 'from_parent')\"\n
And
get_context_data
ofMyComp
will receiveattrs
input with following keys:attrs = {\n \"class\": \"pa-0 border-solid\",\n \"data-json\": '{\"value\": 456}',\n \"@click\": \"(e) => onClick(e, 'from_parent')\",\n}\n
attrs[\"class\"]
overrides the default value forclass
, whereas other keys will be merged.So in the end
MyComp
will render:
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If you need to use serialize HTML attributes outside of Django template and the
html_attrs
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Components can also be defined in a single file, which is useful for small components. To do this, you can use the
[project root]/components/calendar.pytemplate
,js
, andcss
class attributes instead of thetemplate_name
andMedia
. For example, here's the calendar component from above, defined in a single file:# In a file called [project root]/components/calendar.py\nfrom django_components import Component, register, types\n\n@register(\"calendar\")\nclass Calendar(Component):\n def get_context_data(self, date):\n return {\n \"date\": date,\n }\n\n template: types.django_html = \"\"\"\n <div class=\"calendar-component\">Today's date is <span>{{ date }}</span></div>\n \"\"\"\n\n css: types.css = \"\"\"\n .calendar-component { width: 200px; background: pink; }\n .calendar-component span { font-weight: bold; }\n \"\"\"\n\n js: types.js = \"\"\"\n (function(){\n if (document.querySelector(\".calendar-component\")) {\n document.querySelector(\".calendar-component\").onclick = function(){ alert(\"Clicked calendar!\"); };\n }\n })()\n \"\"\"\n
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fill
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- To indicate that a slot must be filled, the new
required
option should be added at the end of theslot
tag.
Components support something called 'slots'. When a component is used inside another template, slots allow the parent template to override specific parts of the child component by passing in different content. This mechanism makes components more reusable and composable. This behavior is similar to slots in Vue.
In the example below we introduce two block tags that work hand in hand to make this work. These are...
{% slot <name> %}
/{% endslot %}
: Declares a new slot in the component template.{% fill <name> %}
/{% endfill %}
: (Used inside a{% component %}
tag pair.) Fills a declared slot with the specified content.
Let's update our calendar component to support more customization. We'll add
slot
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When using the component, you specify which slots you want to fill and where you want to use the defaults from the template. It looks like this:
{% component \"calendar\" date=\"2020-06-06\" %}\n {% fill \"body\" %}\n Can you believe it's already <span>{{ date }}</span>??\n {% endfill %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
Since the 'header' fill is unspecified, it's taken from the base template. If you put this in a template, and pass in
date=2020-06-06
, this is what gets rendered:
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As seen in the previouse section, you can use
{% fill slot_name %}
to insert content into a specific slot.You can define fills for multiple slot simply by defining them all within the
{% component %} {% endcomponent %}
tags:{% component \"calendar\" date=\"2020-06-06\" %}\n {% fill \"header\" %}\n Hi this is header!\n {% endfill %}\n {% fill \"body\" %}\n Can you believe it's already <span>{{ date }}</span>??\n {% endfill %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
You can also use
{% for %}
,{% with %}
, or other non-component tags (even{% include %}
) to construct the{% fill %}
tags, as long as these other tags do not leave any text behind!
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Added in version 0.28
As you can see, component slots lets you write reusable containers that you fill in when you use a component. This makes for highly reusable components that can be used in different circumstances.
It can become tedious to use
fill
tags everywhere, especially when you're using a component that declares only one slot. To make things easier,slot
tags can be marked with an optional keyword:default
.When added to the tag (as shown below), this option lets you pass filling content directly in the body of a
component
tag pair \u2013 without using afill
tag. Choose carefully, though: a component template may contain at most one slot that is marked asdefault
. Thedefault
option can be combined with other slot options, e.g.required
.Here's the same example as before, except with default slots and implicit filling.
The template:
<div class=\"calendar-component\">\n <div class=\"header\">\n {% slot \"header\" %}Calendar header{% endslot %}\n </div>\n <div class=\"body\">\n {% slot \"body\" default %}Today's date is <span>{{ date }}</span>{% endslot %}\n </div>\n</div>\n
Including the component (notice how the
fill
tag is omitted):{% component \"calendar\" date=\"2020-06-06\" %}\n Can you believe it's already <span>{{ date }}</span>??\n{% endcomponent %}\n
The rendered result (exactly the same as before):
<div class=\"calendar-component\">\n <div class=\"header\">Calendar header</div>\n <div class=\"body\">Can you believe it's already <span>2020-06-06</span>??</div>\n</div>\n
You may be tempted to combine implicit fills with explicit
fill
tags. This will not work. The following component template will raise an error when rendered.{# DON'T DO THIS #}\n{% component \"calendar\" date=\"2020-06-06\" %}\n {% fill \"header\" %}Totally new header!{% endfill %}\n Can you believe it's already <span>{{ date }}</span>??\n{% endcomponent %}\n
Instead, you can use a named fill with name
default
to target the default fill:{# THIS WORKS #}\n{% component \"calendar\" date=\"2020-06-06\" %}\n {% fill \"header\" %}Totally new header!{% endfill %}\n {% fill \"default\" %}\n Can you believe it's already <span>{{ date }}</span>??\n {% endfill %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
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Added in version 0.70
You can render the same content in multiple places by defining multiple slots with identical names:
<div class=\"calendar-component\">\n <div class=\"header\">\n {% slot \"image\" %}Image here{% endslot %}\n </div>\n <div class=\"body\">\n {% slot \"image\" %}Image here{% endslot %}\n </div>\n</div>\n
So if used like:
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This renders:
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If you use a slot multiple times, you can still mark the slot as
default
orrequired
. For that, you must mark each slot individually, e.g.:<div class=\"calendar-component\">\n <div class=\"header\">\n {% slot \"image\" default required %}Image here{% endslot %}\n </div>\n <div class=\"body\">\n {% slot \"image\" default required %}Image here{% endslot %}\n </div>\n</div>\n
Which you can then use as regular default slot:
{% component \"calendar\" date=\"2020-06-06\" %}\n <img src=\"...\" />\n{% endcomponent %}\n
Since each slot is tagged individually, you can have multiple slots with the same name but different conditions.
E.g. in this example, we have a component that renders a user avatar - a small circular image with a profile picture or name initials.
If the component is given
image_src
orname_initials
variables, theimage
slot is optional. But if neither of those are provided, you MUST fill theimage
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Added in version 0.26
NOTE: In version 0.77, the syntax was changed from
{% fill \"my_slot\" as \"alias\" %} {{ alias.default }}\n
to
{% fill \"my_slot\" default=\"slot_default\" %} {{ slot_default }}\n
Sometimes you may want to keep the original slot, but only wrap or prepend/append content to it. To do so, you can access the default slot via the
default
kwarg.Similarly to the
data
attribute, you specify the variable name through which the default slot will be made available.For instance, let's say you're filling a slot called 'body'. To render the original slot, assign it to a variable using the
'default'
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This produces:
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To access the original content of a default slot, set the name to
default
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Added in version 0.26.
NOTE: In version 0.70,
{% if_filled %}
tags were replaced with{{ component_vars.is_filled }}
variables. If your slot name contained special characters, see the section Accessingis_filled
of slot names with special characters.In certain circumstances, you may want the behavior of slot filling to depend on whether or not a particular slot is filled.
For example, suppose we have the following component template:
<div class=\"frontmatter-component\">\n <div class=\"title\">\n {% slot \"title\" %}Title{% endslot %}\n </div>\n <div class=\"subtitle\">\n {% slot \"subtitle\" %}{# Optional subtitle #}{% endslot %}\n </div>\n</div>\n
By default the slot named 'subtitle' is empty. Yet when the component is used without explicit fills, the div containing the slot is still rendered, as shown below:
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This may not be what you want. What if instead the outer 'subtitle' div should only be included when the inner slot is in fact filled?
The answer is to use the
{{ component_vars.is_filled.<name> }}
variable. You can use this together with Django's{% if/elif/else/endif %}
tags to define a block whose contents will be rendered only if the component slot with the corresponding 'name' is filled.This is what our example looks like with
component_vars.is_filled
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Here's our example with more complex branching.
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Sometimes you're not interested in whether a slot is filled, but rather that it isn't. To negate the meaning of
component_vars.is_filled
, simply treat it as boolean and negate it withnot
:
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Added in version 0.76:
Consider a component with slot(s). This component may do some processing on the inputs, and then use the processed variable in the slot's default template:
@register(\"my_comp\")\nclass MyComp(Component):\n template = \"\"\"\n <div>\n {% slot \"content\" default %}\n input: {{ input }}\n {% endslot %}\n </div>\n \"\"\"\n\n def get_context_data(self, input):\n processed_input = do_something(input)\n return {\"input\": processed_input}\n
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input
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Using scoped slots consists of two steps:
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slot
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fill
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slot
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Next, we head over to where we define a fill for this slot. Here, to access the slot data we set the
data
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To access slot data on a default slot, you have to explictly define the
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While this does not:
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Note: You cannot set the
data
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Until now, we were declaring slot and fill names statically, as a string literal, e.g.
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In django_components you can achieve the same, simply by using a variable (or a template expression) instead of a string literal:
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NOTE: It's better to use static slot names whenever possible for clarity. The dynamic slot names should be reserved for advanced use only.
Lastly, in rare cases, you can also pass the slot name via the spread operator. This is possible, because the slot name argument is actually a shortcut for a
name
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name
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All template tags in django_component, like
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These can then be accessed inside
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New in version 0.93:
Instead of passing keyword arguments one-by-one:
{% component \"calendar\" title=\"How to abc\" date=\"2015-06-19\" author=\"John Wick\" / %}\n
You can use a spread operator
...dict
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{% component \"calendar\" ...post_data / %}\n
This behaves similar to JSX's spread operator or Vue's
v-bind
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- You cannot use spread operators for positional-only arguments.
Other than that, you can use spread operators multiple times, and even put keyword arguments in-between or after them:
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In a case of conflicts, the values added later (right-most) overwrite previous values.
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Normally, what you would have to do is to define ALL the variables inside
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The data doesn't necessarily have to be strings. In the example above, the kwarg
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page
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page
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items
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items
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You can even go a step further and have a similar experience to Vue or React, where you can evaluate arbitrary code expressions:
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Similar is possible with
django-expr
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Most commonly, this happens when a component accepts a dictionary of HTML attributes (usually called
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:
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Sweet! Now all the relevant HTML is inside the template, and we can move it to a separate file with confidence:
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By default, Django expects a template tag to be defined on a single line.
However, this can become unwieldy if you have a component with a lot of inputs:
{% component \"card\" title=\"Joanne Arc\" subtitle=\"Head of Kitty Relations\" date_last_active=\"2024-09-03\" ... %}\n
Instead, when you install django_components, it automatically configures Django to suport multi-line tags.
So we can rewrite the above as:
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Much better!
To disable this behavior, set
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A component in django-components is the combination of four things: CSS, Javascript, a Django template, and some Python code to put them all together.
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Start by creating empty files in the structure above.
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Then you need a javascript file that specifies how you interact with this component. You are free to use any javascript framework you want. A good way to make sure this component doesn't clash with other components is to define all code inside an anonymous function that calls itself. This makes all variables defined only be defined inside this component and not affect other components.
[project root]/components/calendar/script.js/* In a file called [project root]/components/calendar/script.js */\n(function () {\n if (document.querySelector(\".calendar-component\")) {\n document.querySelector(\".calendar-component\").onclick = function () {\n alert(\"Clicked calendar!\");\n };\n }\n})();\n
Now you need a Django template for your component. Feel free to define more variables like
[project root]/components/calendar/calendar.htmldate
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Finally, we use django-components to tie this together. Start by creating a file called
calendar.py
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[project root]/components/calendar/calendar.py# In a file called [project root]/components/calendar/calendar.py\nfrom django_components import Component, register\n\n@register(\"calendar\")\nclass Calendar(Component):\n # Templates inside `[your apps]/components` dir and `[project root]/components` dir\n # will be automatically found.\n #\n # `template_name` can be relative to dir where `calendar.py` is, or relative to COMPONENTS.dirs\n template_name = \"template.html\"\n # Or\n def get_template_name(context):\n return f\"template-{context['name']}.html\"\n\n # This component takes one parameter, a date string to show in the template\n def get_context_data(self, date):\n return {\n \"date\": date,\n }\n\n # Both `css` and `js` can be relative to dir where `calendar.py` is, or relative to COMPONENTS.dirs\n class Media:\n css = \"style.css\"\n js = \"script.js\"\n
And voil\u00e1!! We've created our first component.
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A simple approach to this would be to modify the inlined JS / CSS directly, and insert them for each component. But if you had extremely large JS / CSS, and e.g. only a single JS / CSS variable that you want to insert, it would be extremely wasteful to copy-paste the JS / CSS for each component instance.
So instead, a preferred approach here is to defined and insert the inlined JS / CSS only once, and have some kind of mechanism on how we make correct the JS / CSS variables available only to the correct components.
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So normally, e.g. when a user hits URL of a web page, the server renders full HTML document, with
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,<html>
,<head>
, and<body>
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ourselves.However this renders only the initial state. HTML fragments is a common pattern where interactivity is added to the web page by fetching and replacing bits of HTML on the main HTML document after some user action.
In the case of HTML fragments, the HTML is NOT a proper document, but only the HTML that will be inserted somewhere into the DOM.
The challenge here is that Django template for the HTML fragment MAY contain components, and these components MAY have inlined or linked JS and CSS.
def fragment_view(request):\n template = Template(\"\"\"\n {% load component_tags %}\n <div>\n {% component \"my_table\" / %}\n </div>\n \"\"\")\n\n fragment_str = template.render(Context({}))\n return HttpResponse(fragment_str, status=200)\n
User may use different libraries to fetch and insert the HTML fragments (e.g. HTMX, AlpineJS, ...). From our perspective, the only thing that we can reliably say is that we expect that the HTML fragment WILL be eventually inserted into the DOM.
So to include the corresponding JS and CSS, a simple approach could be to append them to the HTML as
<style>
and<script>
, e.g.:<!-- Original content -->\n<div>...</div>\n<!-- Associated CSS files -->\n<link href=\"http://...\" />\n<style>\n .my-class {\n color: red;\n }\n</style>\n<!-- Associated JS files -->\n<script src=\"http://...\"></script>\n<script>\n console.log(123);\n</script>\n
But this has a number of issues:
- The JS scripts would run for each instance of the component.
- Bloating of the HTML file, as each inlined JS or CSS would be included fully for each component.
- While this sound OK, this could really bloat the HTML files if we used a UI component library for the basic building blocks like buttons, lists, cards, etc.
So the solution should address all the points above. To achieve that, we manage the JS / CSS dependencies ourselves in the browser. So when a full HTML document is loaded, we keep track of which JS and CSS have been loaded. And when an HTML fragment is inserted, we check which JS / CSS dependencies it has, and load only those that have NOT been loaded yet.
This is how we achieve that:
- When a component is rendered, it inserts an HTML comment containing metadata about the rendered component.
So a template like this
{% load component_tags %}\n<div>\n {% component \"my_table\" / %}\n</div>\n{% component \"button\" %}\n Click me!\n{% endcomponent %}\n
May actually render:
<div>\n <!-- _RENDERED \"my_table_10bc2c,c020ad\" -->\n <table>\n ...\n </table>\n</div>\n<!-- _RENDERED \"button_309dcf,31c0da\" -->\n<button>Click me!</button>\n
Each
<!-- _RENDERED -->
comment includes comma-separated data - a unique hash for the component class, e.g.my_table_10bc2c
, and the component ID, e.g.c020ad
.This way, we or the user can freely pass the rendered around or transform it, treating it as a string to add / remove / replace bits. As long as the
<!-- _RENDERED -->
comments remain in the rendered string, we will be able to deduce which JS and CSS dependencies the component needs.- Post-process the rendered HTML, extracting the
<!-- _RENDERED -->
comments, and instead inserting the corresponding JS and CSS dependencies.
If we dealt only with JS, then we could get away with processing the
<!-- _RENDERED -->
comments on the client (browser). However, the CSS needs to be processed still on the server, so the browser receives CSS styles already inserted as<style>
or<link>
HTML tags. Because if we do not do that, we get a flash of unstyled content, as there will be a delay between when the HTML page loaded and when the CSS was fetched and loaded.So, assuming that a user has already rendered their template, which still contains
<!-- _RENDERED -->
comments, we need to extract and process these comments.There's multiple ways to achieve this:
-
The approach recommended to the users is to use the
ComponentDependencyMiddleware
middleware, which scans all outgoing HTML, and post-processes the<!-- _RENDERED -->
comments. -
If users are using
Component.render()
orComponent.render_to_response()
, these post-process the<!-- _RENDERED -->
comments by default.- NOTE: Users are able to opt out of the post-processing by setting
render_dependencies=False
.
- NOTE: Users are able to opt out of the post-processing by setting
-
For advanced use cases, users may use
render_dependencies()
directly. This is the function that bothComponentDependencyMiddleware
andComponent.render()
call internally.
render_dependencies()
, whether called directly, via middleware or other way, does the following:-
Find all
<!-- _RENDERED -->
comments, and for each comment: -
Look up the corresponding component class.
-
Get the component's inlined JS / CSS from
Component.js/css
, and linked JS / CSS fromComponent.Media.js/css
. -
Generate JS script that loads the JS / CSS dependencies.
-
Insert the JS scripts either at the end of
<body>
, or in place of{% component_dependencies %}
/{% component_js_dependencies %}
tags. -
To avoid the flash of unstyled content, we need place the styles into the HTML instead of dynamically loading them from within a JS script. The CSS is placed either at the end of
<head>
, or in place of{% component_dependencies %}
/{% component_css_dependencies %}
-
We cache the component's inlined JS and CSS, so they can be fetched via an URL, so the inlined JS / CSS an be treated the same way as the JS / CSS dependencies set in
Component.Media.js/css
.- NOTE: While this is currently not entirely necessary, it opens up the doors for allowing plugins to post-process the inlined JS and CSS. Because after it has been post-processed, we need to store it somewhere.
-
Server returns the post-processed HTML.
-
In the browser, the generated JS script from step 2.4 is executed. It goes through all JS and CSS dependencies it was given. If some JS / CSS was already loaded, it is NOT fetched again. Otherwise it generates the corresponding
<script>
or<link>
HTML tags to load the JS / CSS dependencies.
In the browser, the \"dependency manager JS\" may look like this:
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Named slots:
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Read on to find out how to build your first component!
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Copyright (c) 2019 Emil Stenstr\u00f6m
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the \"Software\"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED \"AS IS\", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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From v0.27 until v0.100, django-components shipped with an additional installable app django_components.safer_staticfiles. It was a drop-in replacement for django.contrib.staticfiles. Its behavior is 100% identical except it ignores .py and .html files, meaning these will not end up on your static files server. To use it, add it to
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Define a component in
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Read on to learn about all the exciting details and configuration possibilities!
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object
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Manages components and makes them available in the template, by default as
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\u2013 -
clear
\u2013 -
get
\u2013 -
register
\u2013 -
unregister
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is_filled
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Dictonary describing which component slots are filled (
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(Optional[List[Union[str, Pattern]]]
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libraries
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) \u2013 -
reload_on_template_change
(Optional[bool]
) \u2013 -
static_files_allowed
(Optional[List[Union[str, Pattern]]]
) \u2013 -
static_files_forbidden
(Optional[List[Union[str, Pattern]]]
) \u2013 -
tag_formatter
(Optional[Union[TagFormatterABC, str]]
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template_cache_size
(Optional[int]
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Specify the app-level directories that contain your components.
Defaults to
[\"components\"]
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<app>/my_comps/
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Toggle whether to run autodiscovery at the Django server startup.
Defaults to
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Configure whether, inside a component template, you can use variables from the outside (
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Defaults to
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Defaults to
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Enable / disable multiline support for template tags. If
True
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This is relevant if you are using the project structure where HTML, JS, CSS and Python are in separate files and nested in a directory.
In this case you may notice that when you are running a development server, the server sometimes does not reload when you change component files.
Django's native live reload logic handles only Python files and HTML template files. It does NOT reload when other file types change or when template files are nested more than one level deep.
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True
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Defaults to
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Deprecated. Use
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A list of file extensions (including the leading dot) that define which files within
COMPONENTS.dirs
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are treated as static files.If a file is matched against any of the patterns, it's considered a static file. Such files are collected when running
collectstatic
, and can be accessed under the static file endpoint.You can also pass in compiled regexes (
re.Pattern
) for more advanced patterns.By default, JS, CSS, and common image and font file formats are considered static files:
COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n static_files_allowed=[\n \".css\",\n \".js\", \".jsx\", \".ts\", \".tsx\",\n # Images\n \".apng\", \".png\", \".avif\", \".gif\", \".jpg\",\n \".jpeg\", \".jfif\", \".pjpeg\", \".pjp\", \".svg\",\n \".webp\", \".bmp\", \".ico\", \".cur\", \".tif\", \".tiff\",\n # Fonts\n \".eot\", \".ttf\", \".woff\", \".otf\", \".svg\",\n ],\n)\n
Warning
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","text":"static_files_forbidden: Optional[List[Union[str, Pattern]]] = None\n
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A list of file extensions (including the leading dot) that define which files within
COMPONENTS.dirs
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.Use this setting together with
static_files_allowed
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re.Pattern
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Warning
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Configure what syntax is used inside Django templates to render components. See the available tag formatters.
Defaults to
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Can be set either as direct reference:
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Or as an import string;
COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n \"tag_formatter\": \"django_components.component_formatter\"\n)\n
Examples:
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\"django_components.component_formatter\"
Set
COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n \"tag_formatter\": \"django_components.component_formatter\"\n)\n
To write components like this:
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-
django_components.component_shorthand_formatter
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COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n \"tag_formatter\": \"django_components.component_shorthand_formatter\"\n)\n
To write components like this:
{% button href=\"...\" %}\n Click me!\n{% endbutton %}\n
class-attribute
instance-attribute
","text":"template_cache_size: Optional[int] = None\n
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Configure the maximum amount of Django templates to be cached.
Defaults to
128
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lru_cache
decorator). This speeds up the next render of the component. As the same component is often used many times on the same page, these savings add up.By default the cache holds 128 component templates in memory, which should be enough for most sites. But if you have a lot of components, or if you are overriding
Component.get_template()
to render many dynamic templates, you can increase this number.COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n template_cache_size=256,\n)\n
To remove the cache limit altogether and cache everything, set
template_cache_size
toNone
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If you want to add templates to the cache yourself, you can use
cached_template()
:
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Bases:
str
,enum.Enum
See source code
Configure how (and whether) the context is passed to the component fills and what variables are available inside the
{% fill %}
tags.Also see Component context and scope.
Options:
django
: With this setting, component fills behave as usual Django tags.isolated
: This setting makes the component fills behave similar to Vue or React.
Attributes:
-
DJANGO
\u2013 -
ISOLATED
\u2013
class-attribute
instance-attribute
","text":"DJANGO = 'django'\n
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With this setting, component fills behave as usual Django tags. That is, they enrich the context, and pass it along.
- Component fills use the context of the component they are within.
- Variables from
Component.get_context_data()
are available to the component fill.
Example:
Given this template
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Component.get_context_data()
method{ \"my_var\": 123 }\n
Then if component \"my_comp\" defines context
{ \"my_var\": 456 }\n
Then this will render:
456 # my_var\nfeta # cheese\n
Because \"my_comp\" overrides the variable \"my_var\", so
{{ my_var }}
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instance-attribute
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This setting makes the component fills behave similar to Vue or React, where the fills use EXCLUSIVELY the context variables defined in
Component.get_context_data()
.Example:
Given this template
{% with cheese=\"feta\" %}\n {% component 'my_comp' %}\n {{ my_var }} # my_var\n {{ cheese }} # cheese\n {% endcomponent %}\n{% endwith %}\n
and this context returned from the
get_context_data()
method{ \"my_var\": 123 }\n
Then if component \"my_comp\" defines context
{ \"my_var\": 456 }\n
Then this will render:
123 # my_var\n # cheese\n
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TypedDict with no members.
You can use this to define a Component that accepts NO kwargs, or NO slots, or returns NO data from
Component.get_context_data()
/Component.get_js_data()
/Component.get_css_data()
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from django_components import Component, EmptyDict\n\nclass Table(Component(Any, EmptyDict, Any, Any, Any, Any))\n ...\n
Accepts NO slots:
from django_components import Component, EmptyDict\n\nclass Table(Component(Any, Any, EmptyDict, Any, Any, Any))\n ...\n
Returns NO data from
get_context_data()
:from django_components import Component, EmptyDict\n\nclass Table(Component(Any, Any, Any, EmptyDict, Any, Any))\n ...\n
Going back to the example with NO kwargs, when you then call
Component.render()
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kwargs
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Other values are not allowed. This will raise an error with MyPy:
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Tuple with no members.
You can use this to define a Component that accepts NO positional arguments:
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After that, when you call
Component.render()
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args
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Other values are not allowed. This will raise an error with MyPy:
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tuple
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Configuration for a
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from django_components import ComponentRegistry, RegistrySettings\n\nregistry_settings = RegistrySettings(\n context_behavior=\"django\",\n tag_formatter=\"django_components.component_shorthand_formatter\",\n)\n\nregistry = ComponentRegistry(settings=registry_settings)\n
Attributes:
-
CONTEXT_BEHAVIOR
(Optional[ContextBehaviorType]
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TAG_FORMATTER
(Optional[Union[TagFormatterABC, str]]
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context_behavior
(Optional[ContextBehaviorType]
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tag_formatter
(Optional[Union[TagFormatterABC, str]]
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instance-attribute
","text":"CONTEXT_BEHAVIOR: Optional[ContextBehaviorType] = None\n
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Deprecated. Use
context_behavior
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COMPONENTS.context_behavior
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Deprecated. Use
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COMPONENTS.tag_formatter
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Same as the global
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Same as the global
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This class holds the slot content function along with related metadata.
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(SlotFunc[TSlotData]
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do_not_call_in_templates
(bool
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Bases:
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SlotRef allows to treat a slot as a variable. The slot is rendered only once the instance is coerced to string.
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Abstract base class for defining custom tag formatters.
Tag formatters define how the component tags are used in the template.
Read more about Tag formatter.
For example, with the default tag formatter (
ComponentFormatter
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While with the shorthand tag formatter (
ShorthandComponentFormatter
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Example:
Implementation for
ShorthandComponentFormatter
:from djagno_components import TagFormatterABC, TagResult\n\nclass ShorthandComponentFormatter(TagFormatterABC):\n def start_tag(self, name: str) -> str:\n return name\n\n def end_tag(self, name: str) -> str:\n return f\"end{name}\"\n\n def parse(self, tokens: List[str]) -> TagResult:\n tokens = [*tokens]\n name = tokens.pop(0)\n return TagResult(name, tokens)\n
Methods:
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end_tag
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parse
\u2013 -
start_tag
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","text":"end_tag(name: str) -> str\n
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Formats the end tag of a block component.
Parameters:
-
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-
str
(str
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abstractmethod
","text":"parse(tokens: List[str]) -> TagResult\n
See source code
Given the tokens (words) passed to a component start tag, this function extracts the component name from the tokens list, and returns
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.Parameters:
-
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([List(str]
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Returns:
-
TagResult
(TagResult
) \u2013Parsed component name and remaining tokens.
Example:
Assuming we used a component in a template like this:
{% component \"my_comp\" key=val key2=val2 %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
This function receives a list of tokens:
['component', '\"my_comp\"', 'key=val', 'key2=val2']\n
component
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is the component name, but we must remove the extra quotes.- The remaining tokens we pass unmodified, as that's the input to the component.
So in the end, we return:
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","text":"start_tag(name: str) -> str\n
See source code
Formats the start tag of a component.
Parameters:
-
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(str
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Returns:
-
str
(str
) \u2013The formatted start tag.
Bases:
tuple
See source code
The return value from
TagFormatter.parse()
.Read more about Tag formatter.
Attributes:
-
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(str
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(List[str]
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instance-attribute
","text":"component_name: str\n
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Component name extracted from the template tag
For example, if we had tag
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.instance-attribute
","text":"tokens: List[str]\n
See source code
Remaining tokens (words) that were passed to the tag, with component name removed
For example, if we had tag
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.autodiscover(map_module: Optional[Callable[[str], str]] = None) -> List[str]\n
See source code
Search for all python files in
COMPONENTS.dirs
andCOMPONENTS.app_dirs
and import them.See Autodiscovery.
Parameters:
-
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(Callable[[str], str]
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map_module
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Returns:
-
List[str]
\u2013List[str]: A list of module paths of imported files.
To get the same list of modules that
autodiscover()
would return, but without importing them, useget_component_files()
:
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cached_template(\n template_string: str,\n template_cls: Optional[Type[Template]] = None,\n origin: Optional[Origin] = None,\n name: Optional[str] = None,\n engine: Optional[Any] = None,\n) -> Template\n
See source code
Create a Template instance that will be cached as per the
COMPONENTS.template_cache_size
setting.Parameters:
-
template_string
(str
) \u2013Template as a string, same as the first argument to Django's
Template
. Required. -
template_cls
(Type[Template]
, default:None
) \u2013Specify the Template class that should be instantiated. Defaults to Django's
Template
class. -
origin
(Type[Origin]
, default:None
) \u2013Sets
Template.Origin
. -
name
(Type[str]
, default:None
) \u2013Sets
Template.name
-
engine
(Type[Any]
, default:None
) \u2013Sets
Template.engine
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get_component_dirs(include_apps: bool = True) -> List[Path]\n
See source code
Get directories that may contain component files.
This is the heart of all features that deal with filesystem and file lookup. Autodiscovery, Django template resolution, static file resolution - They all use this.
Parameters:
-
include_apps
(bool
, default:True
) \u2013Include directories from installed Django apps. Defaults to
True
.
Returns:
-
List[Path]
\u2013List[Path]: A list of directories that may contain component files.
get_component_dirs()
searches for dirs set inCOMPONENTS.dirs
settings. If none set, defaults to searching for a\"components\"
app.In addition to that, also all installed Django apps are checked whether they contain directories as set in
COMPONENTS.app_dirs
(e.g.[app]/components
).Notes:
-
Paths that do not point to directories are ignored.
-
BASE_DIR
setting is required. -
The paths in
COMPONENTS.dirs
must be absolute paths.
get_component_files(suffix: Optional[str] = None) -> List[ComponentFileEntry]\n
See source code
Search for files within the component directories (as defined in
get_component_dirs()
).Requires
BASE_DIR
setting to be set.Parameters:
-
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(Optional[str]
, default:None
) \u2013The suffix to search for. E.g.
.py
,.js
,.css
. Defaults toNone
, which will search for all files.
Returns:
-
List[ComponentFileEntry]
\u2013List[ComponentFileEntry] A list of entries that contain both the filesystem path and the python import path (dot path).
Example:
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Import modules set in
COMPONENTS.libraries
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map_module
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-
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Class decorator for registering a component to a component registry.
See Registering components.
Parameters:
-
name
(str
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{% component %}
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registry
(ComponentRegistry
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Raises:
-
AlreadyRegistered
\u2013If there is already a component registered under the same name.
Examples:
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Specifing
ComponentRegistry
the component should be registered to by setting theregistry
kwarg:
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The default and global component registry. Use this instance to directly register or remove components:
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render_dependencies(content: TContent, type: RenderType = 'document') -> TContent\n
See source code
Given a string that contains parts that were rendered by components, this function inserts all used JS and CSS.
By default, the string is parsed as an HTML and: - CSS is inserted at the end of
<head>
(if present) - JS is inserted at the end of<body>
(if present)If you used
{% component_js_dependencies %}
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These are all the Django management commands that will be added by installing
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See source code
Create a new django component.
Positional Arguments:
name
- The name of the component to create. This is a required argument.
Options:
-h
,--help
- show this help message and exit
--path PATH
- The path to the component's directory. This is an optional argument. If not provided, the command will use the
COMPONENTS.dirs
setting from your Django settings.
- The path to the component's directory. This is an optional argument. If not provided, the command will use the
--js JS
- The name of the JavaScript file. This is an optional argument. The default value is
script.js
.
- The name of the JavaScript file. This is an optional argument. The default value is
--css CSS
- The name of the CSS file. This is an optional argument. The default value is
style.css
.
- The name of the CSS file. This is an optional argument. The default value is
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- The name of the template file. This is an optional argument. The default value is
template.html
.
- The name of the template file. This is an optional argument. The default value is
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--verbose
- This option allows the command to print additional information during component creation. This is an optional argument.
--dry-run
- This option allows you to simulate component creation without actually creating any files. This is an optional argument. The default value is
False
.
- This option allows you to simulate component creation without actually creating any files. This is an optional argument. The default value is
--version
- Show program's version number and exit.
-v {0,1,2,3}
,--verbosity {0,1,2,3}
- Verbosity level; 0=minimal output, 1=normal output, 2=verbose output, 3=very verbose output
--settings SETTINGS
- The Python path to a settings module, e.g. \"myproject.settings.main\". If this isn't provided, the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable will be used.
--pythonpath PYTHONPATH
- A directory to add to the Python path, e.g. \"/home/djangoprojects/myproject\".
--traceback
- Raise on CommandError exceptions.
--no-color
- Don't colorize the command output.
--force-color
- Force colorization of the command output.
--skip-checks
- Skip system checks.
To use the command, run the following command in your terminal:
python manage.py startcomponent <name> --path <path> --js <js_filename> --css <css_filename> --template <template_filename> --force --verbose --dry-run\n
Replace
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, andtemplate.html
, respectively.You can also create a component with custom settings by providing additional arguments:
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This will create a new component named
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","text":"usage: manage.py upgradecomponent [-h] [--path PATH] [--version]\n [-v {0,1,2,3}] [--settings SETTINGS]\n [--pythonpath PYTHONPATH] [--traceback]\n [--no-color] [--force-color] [--skip-checks]\n
See source code
Updates component and component_block tags to the new syntax
Options:
-h
,--help
- show this help message and exit
--path PATH
- Path to search for components
--version
- Show program's version number and exit.
-v {0,1,2,3}
,--verbosity {0,1,2,3}
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--settings SETTINGS
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--pythonpath PYTHONPATH
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--traceback
- Raise on CommandError exceptions.
--no-color
- Don't colorize the command output.
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--skip-checks
- Skip system checks.
These are the components provided by django_components.
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This component is given a registered name or a reference to another component, and behaves as if the other component was in its place.
The args, kwargs, and slot fills are all passed down to the underlying component.
Parameters:
-
is
(str | Type[Component]
) \u2013Component that should be rendered. Either a registered name of a component, or a Component class directly. Required.
-
registry
(ComponentRegistry
, default:None
) \u2013Specify the registry to search for the registered name. If omitted, all registries are searched until the first match.
-
*args
\u2013Additional data passed to the component.
-
**kwargs
\u2013Additional data passed to the component.
Slots:
- Any slots, depending on the actual component.
Examples:
Django
{% component \"dynamic\" is=table_comp data=table_data headers=table_headers %}\n {% fill \"pagination\" %}\n {% component \"pagination\" / %}\n {% endfill %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
Or in case you use the
django_components.component_shorthand_formatter
tag formatter:{% dynamic is=table_comp data=table_data headers=table_headers %}\n {% fill \"pagination\" %}\n {% component \"pagination\" / %}\n {% endfill %}\n{% enddynamic %}\n
Python
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Dynamic components are suitable if you are writing something like a form component. You may design it such that users give you a list of input types, and you render components depending on the input types.
While you could handle this with a series of if / else statements, that's not an extensible approach. Instead, you can use the dynamic component in place of normal components.
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Exception
See source code
Raised when you try to register a Component, but it's already registered with given ComponentRegistry.
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Exception
See source code
Raised when you try to access a Component, but it's NOT registered with given ComponentRegistry.
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Exception
See source code
The way the
TagFormatter
works is that, based on which start and end tags are used for rendering components, theComponentRegistry
behind the scenes un-/registers the template tags with the associated instance of Django'sLibrary
.In other words, if I have registered a component
\"table\"
, and I use the shorthand syntax:{% table ... %}\n{% endtable %}\n
Then
ComponentRegistry
registers the tagtable
onto the Django's Library instance.However, that means that if we registered a component
\"slot\"
, then we would overwrite the{% slot %}
tag from django_components.Thus, this exception is raised when a component is attempted to be registered under a forbidden name, such that it would overwrite one of django_component's own template tags.
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object
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Middleware that inserts CSS/JS dependencies for all rendered components at points marked with template tags.
Methods:
-
process_response
\u2013
Attributes:
-
get_response
\u2013
get_response = get_response
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COMPONENTS
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ComponentsSettings
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app_dirs: Optional[Sequence[str]] = None\n
See source code
Specify the app-level directories that contain your components.
Defaults to
[\"components\"]
. That is, for each Django app, we search<app>/components/
for components.The paths must be relative to app, e.g.:
COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n app_dirs=[\"my_comps\"],\n)\n
To search for
<app>/my_comps/
.These locations are searched during autodiscovery, or when you define HTML, JS, or CSS as separate files.
Set to empty list to disable app-level components:
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See source code
Toggle whether to run autodiscovery at the Django server startup.
Defaults to
True
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context_behavior: Optional[ContextBehaviorType] = None\n
See source code
Configure whether, inside a component template, you can use variables from the outside (
\"django\"
) or not (\"isolated\"
). This also affects what variables are available inside the{% fill %}
tags.Also see Component context and scope.
Defaults to
\"django\"
.COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n context_behavior=\"isolated\",\n)\n
NOTE:
context_behavior
andslot_context_behavior
options were merged in v0.70.If you are migrating from BEFORE v0.67, set
context_behavior
to\"django\"
. From v0.67 to v0.78 (incl) the default value was\"isolated\"
.For v0.79 and later, the default is again
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See source code
Specify the directories that contain your components.
Defaults to
[Path(settings.BASE_DIR) / \"components\"]
. That is, the rootcomponents/
app.Directories must be full paths, same as with STATICFILES_DIRS.
These locations are searched during autodiscovery, or when you define HTML, JS, or CSS as separate files.
COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n dirs=[BASE_DIR / \"components\"],\n)\n
Set to empty list to disable global components directories:
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dynamic_component_name: Optional[str] = None\n
See source code
By default, the dynamic component is registered under the name
\"dynamic\"
.In case of a conflict, you can use this setting to change the component name used for the dynamic components.
# settings.py\nCOMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n dynamic_component_name=\"my_dynamic\",\n)\n
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forbidden_static_files: Optional[List[Union[str, Pattern]]] = None\n
See source code
Deprecated. Use
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instead.libraries: Optional[List[str]] = None\n
See source code
Configure extra python modules that should be loaded.
This may be useful if you are not using the autodiscovery feature, or you need to load components from non-standard locations. Thus you can have a structure of components that is independent from your apps.
Expects a list of python module paths. Defaults to empty list.
Example:
COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n libraries=[\n \"mysite.components.forms\",\n \"mysite.components.buttons\",\n \"mysite.components.cards\",\n ],\n)\n
This would be the equivalent of importing these modules from within Django's
AppConfig.ready()
:
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In the rare case that you need to manually trigger the import of libraries, you can use the
import_libraries()
function:
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multiline_tags: Optional[bool] = None\n
See source code
Enable / disable multiline support for template tags. If
True
, template tags like{% component %}
or{{ my_var }}
can span multiple lines.Defaults to
True
.Disable this setting if you are making custom modifications to Django's regular expression for parsing templates at
django.template.base.tag_re
.
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reload_on_file_change: Optional[bool] = None\n
See source code
This is relevant if you are using the project structure where HTML, JS, CSS and Python are in separate files and nested in a directory.
In this case you may notice that when you are running a development server, the server sometimes does not reload when you change component files.
Django's native live reload logic handles only Python files and HTML template files. It does NOT reload when other file types change or when template files are nested more than one level deep.
The setting
reload_on_file_change
fixes this, reloading the dev server even when your component's HTML, JS, or CSS changes.If
True
, django_components configures Django to reload when files insideCOMPONENTS.dirs
orCOMPONENTS.app_dirs
change.See Reload dev server on component file changes.
Defaults to
False
.Warning
This setting should be enabled only for the dev environment!
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Deprecated. Use
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See source code
A list of file extensions (including the leading dot) that define which files within
COMPONENTS.dirs
orCOMPONENTS.app_dirs
are treated as static files.If a file is matched against any of the patterns, it's considered a static file. Such files are collected when running
collectstatic
, and can be accessed under the static file endpoint.You can also pass in compiled regexes (
re.Pattern
) for more advanced patterns.By default, JS, CSS, and common image and font file formats are considered static files:
COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n static_files_allowed=[\n \".css\",\n \".js\", \".jsx\", \".ts\", \".tsx\",\n # Images\n \".apng\", \".png\", \".avif\", \".gif\", \".jpg\",\n \".jpeg\", \".jfif\", \".pjpeg\", \".pjp\", \".svg\",\n \".webp\", \".bmp\", \".ico\", \".cur\", \".tif\", \".tiff\",\n # Fonts\n \".eot\", \".ttf\", \".woff\", \".otf\", \".svg\",\n ],\n)\n
Warning
Exposing your Python files can be a security vulnerability. See Security notes.
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A list of file extensions (including the leading dot) that define which files within
COMPONENTS.dirs
orCOMPONENTS.app_dirs
will NEVER be treated as static files.If a file is matched against any of the patterns, it will never be considered a static file, even if the file matches a pattern in
static_files_allowed
.Use this setting together with
static_files_allowed
for a fine control over what file types will be exposed.You can also pass in compiled regexes (
re.Pattern
) for more advanced patterns.By default, any HTML and Python are considered NOT static files:
COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n static_files_forbidden=[\n \".html\", \".django\", \".dj\", \".tpl\",\n # Python files\n \".py\", \".pyc\",\n ],\n)\n
Warning
Exposing your Python files can be a security vulnerability. See Security notes.
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Configure what syntax is used inside Django templates to render components. See the available tag formatters.
Defaults to
\"django_components.component_formatter\"
.Learn more about Customizing component tags with TagFormatter.
Can be set either as direct reference:
from django_components import component_formatter\n\nCOMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n \"tag_formatter\": component_formatter\n)\n
Or as an import string;
COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n \"tag_formatter\": \"django_components.component_formatter\"\n)\n
Examples:
-
\"django_components.component_formatter\"
Set
COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n \"tag_formatter\": \"django_components.component_formatter\"\n)\n
To write components like this:
{% component \"button\" href=\"...\" %}\n Click me!\n{% endcomponent %}\n
-
django_components.component_shorthand_formatter
Set
COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n \"tag_formatter\": \"django_components.component_shorthand_formatter\"\n)\n
To write components like this:
{% button href=\"...\" %}\n Click me!\n{% endbutton %}\n
template_cache_size: Optional[int] = None\n
See source code
Configure the maximum amount of Django templates to be cached.
Defaults to
128
.Each time a Django template is rendered, it is cached to a global in-memory cache (using Python's
lru_cache
decorator). This speeds up the next render of the component. As the same component is often used many times on the same page, these savings add up.By default the cache holds 128 component templates in memory, which should be enough for most sites. But if you have a lot of components, or if you are overriding
Component.get_template()
to render many dynamic templates, you can increase this number.COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n template_cache_size=256,\n)\n
To remove the cache limit altogether and cache everything, set
template_cache_size
toNone
.COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n template_cache_size=None,\n)\n
If you want to add templates to the cache yourself, you can use
cached_template()
:
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Tag formatters allow you to change the syntax for calling components from within the Django templates.
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The original django_component's component tag formatter, it uses the
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The component tag formatter that uses
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/{% end<name> %}
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Example as block:
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Renders one of the components that was previously registered with
@register()
decorator.Args:
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If you defined a component
\"my_table\"
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MyTable
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-
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Marks location where CSS link tags should be rendered after the whole HTML has been generated.
Generally, this should be inserted into the
<head>
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Marks location where JS link tags should be rendered after the whole HTML has been generated.
Generally, this should be inserted at the end of the
<body>
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Use this tag to insert content into component's slots.
{% fill %}
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withname
set to\"default\"
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{% html_attrs attrs=None defaults=None **kwargs %}\n
See source code
Generate HTML attributes (
key=\"value\"
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Args:
attrs
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dictionary.default
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The attributes in
attrs
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The \"provider\" part of the provide / inject feature. Pass kwargs to this tag to define the provider's data. Any components defined within the
{% provide %}..{% endprovide %}
tags will be able to access this data withComponent.inject()
.This is similar to React's
ContextProvider
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name
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.**kwargs
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Example:
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{% provide %}
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.\u2705 Do this
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\u274c Don't do this
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See source code
Slot tag marks a place inside a component where content can be inserted from outside.
Learn more about using slots.
This is similar to slots as seen in Web components, Vue or React's
children
.Args:
name
(str, required): Registered name of the component to renderdefault
: Optional flag. If there is a default slot, you can pass the component slot content without using the{% fill %}
tag. See Default slotrequired
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Example:
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Dictonary describing which component slots are filled (
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Example:
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components/
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- \ud83d\ude80 Server-side rendering: Components render on the server, improving initial load times and SEO.
- \ud83d\udc0d Django integration: Works within the Django ecosystem, using familiar concepts like template tags.
- \u26a1 Asynchronous loading: Components can render independently opening up for integration with JS frameworks like HTMX or AlpineJS.
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Define a component in
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With this
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Use the component like this:
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And this is what gets rendered:
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Read on to learn about all the exciting details and configuration possibilities!
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Get involved or sponsor this project - See here
Running django-components locally for development - See here
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- Concepts
- Fundamentals
- Advanced
- Guides
- Setup
- Cookbook
- API Documentation
- Release notes
This guide is for you if you're upgrating django_components to v0.100 or later from older versions.
In version 0.100, we changed how components' static JS and CSS files are handled. See more in the \"Static files\" section.
Migration steps:
- Remove
django_components.safer_staticfiles
fromINSTALLED_APPS
in yoursettings.py
, and replace it withdjango.contrib.staticfiles
.
Before:
INSTALLED_APPS = [\n \"django.contrib.admin\",\n ...\n # \"django.contrib.staticfiles\", # <-- ADD\n \"django_components\",\n \"django_components.safer_staticfiles\", # <-- REMOVE\n]\n
After:
INSTALLED_APPS = [\n \"django.contrib.admin\",\n ...\n \"django.contrib.staticfiles\",\n \"django_components\",\n]\n
- Add
STATICFILES_FINDERS
tosettings.py
, and adddjango_components.finders.ComponentsFileSystemFinder
:
STATICFILES_FINDERS = [\n # Default finders\n \"django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder\",\n \"django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder\",\n # Django components\n \"django_components.finders.ComponentsFileSystemFinder\", # <-- ADDED\n]\n
- Add
COMPONENTS.dirs
tosettings.py
.
If you previously defined
STATICFILES_DIRS
, move only those directories fromSTATICFILES_DIRS
that point to components directories, and keep the rest.E.g. if you have
STATICFILES_DIRS
like this:STATICFILES_DIRS = [\n BASE_DIR / \"components\", # <-- MOVE\n BASE_DIR / \"myapp\" / \"components\", # <-- MOVE\n BASE_DIR / \"assets\",\n]\n
Then first two entries point to components dirs, whereas
/assets
points to non-component static files. In this case move only the first two paths:COMPONENTS = {\n \"dirs\": [\n BASE_DIR / \"components\", # <-- MOVED\n BASE_DIR / \"myapp\" / \"components\", # <-- MOVED\n ],\n}\n\nSTATICFILES_DIRS = [\n BASE_DIR / \"assets\",\n]\n
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STATICFILES_DIRS
before, you can now define as a RELATIVE path inapp_dirs
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- Fix the order of execution of JS scripts:
- Scripts in
Component.Media.js
are executed in the order they are defined -
Scripts in
Component.js
are executed AFTERMedia.js
scripts -
Fix compatibility with AlpineJS
- Scripts in
Component.Media.js
are now again inserted as<script>
tags - By default,
Component.Media.js
are inserted as synchronous<script>
tags, so the AlpineJS components registered in theMedia.js
scripts will now again run BEFORE the core AlpineJS script.
AlpineJS can be configured like so:
Option 1 - AlpineJS loaded in
<head>
withdefer
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<body>
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- Fix integration with ManifestStaticFilesStorage on Windows by resolving component filepaths (like
Component.template_name
) to POSIX paths.
- Prevent rendering Slot tags during fill discovery stage to fix a case when a component inside a slot fill tried to access provided data too early.
- Ensure consistent order of scripts in
Component.Media.js
- Allow components to accept default fill even if no default slot was encountered during rendering
- Prevent rendering Component tags during fill discovery stage to fix a case when a component inside the default slot tried to access provided data too early.
-
Installation changes:
- If your components include JS or CSS, you now must use the middleware and add django-components' URLs to your
urlpatterns
(See \"Adding support for JS and CSS\")
- If your components include JS or CSS, you now must use the middleware and add django-components' URLs to your
-
Component typing signature changed from
Component[Args, Kwargs, Data, Slots]\n
to
Component[Args, Kwargs, Slots, Data, JsData, CssData]\n
-
If you rendered a component A with
Component.render()
and then inserted that into another component B, now you must passrender_dependencies=False
to component A:prerendered_a = CompA.render(\n args=[...],\n kwargs={...},\n render_dependencies=False,\n)\n\nhtml = CompB.render(\n kwargs={\n content=prerendered_a,\n },\n)\n
- Intellisense and mypy validation for settings:
Instead of defining the
COMPONENTS
settings as a plain dict, you can useComponentsSettings
:# settings.py\nfrom django_components import ComponentsSettings\n\nCOMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n autodiscover=True,\n ...\n)\n
- Use
get_component_dirs()
andget_component_files()
to get the same list of dirs / files that would be imported byautodiscover()
, but without actually importing them.
-
For advanced use cases, use can omit the middleware and instead manage component JS and CSS dependencies yourself with
render_dependencies
-
The
ComponentRegistry
settingsRegistrySettings
were lowercased to align with the global settings: RegistrySettings.CONTEXT_BEHAVIOR
->RegistrySettings.context_behavior
RegistrySettings.TAG_FORMATTER
->RegistrySettings.tag_formatter
The old uppercase settings
CONTEXT_BEHAVIOR
andTAG_FORMATTER
are deprecated and will be removed in v1.-
The setting
reload_on_template_change
was renamed toreload_on_file_change
. And now it properly triggers server reload when any file in the component dirs change. The old namereload_on_template_change
is deprecated and will be removed in v1. -
The setting
forbidden_static_files
was renamed tostatic_files_forbidden
to align withstatic_files_allowed
The old nameforbidden_static_files
is deprecated and will be removed in v1.
-
{% component_dependencies %}
tag was removed. Instead, use{% component_js_dependencies %}
and{% component_css_dependencies %}
-
The combined tag was removed to encourage the best practice of putting JS scripts at the end of
<body>
, and CSS styles inside<head>
.On the other hand, co-locating JS script and CSS styles can lead to a flash of unstyled content, as either JS scripts will block the rendering, or CSS will load too late.
-
-
The undocumented keyword arg
preload
of{% component_js_dependencies %}
and{% component_css_dependencies %}
tags was removed. This will be replaced with HTML fragment support.
- Allow using forward slash (
/
) when defining custom TagFormatter, e.g.{% MyComp %}..{% /MyComp %}
.
{% component_dependencies %}
tags are now OPTIONAL - If your components use JS and CSS, but you don't use{% component_dependencies %}
tags, the JS and CSS will now be, by default, inserted at the end of<body>
and at the end of<head>
respectively.
- Fills can now be defined within loops (
{% for %}
) or other tags (like{% with %}
), or even other templates using{% include %}
.
Following is now possible
{% component \"table\" %}\n {% for slot_name in slots %}\n {% fill name=slot_name %}\n {% endfill %}\n {% endfor %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
- If you need to access the data or the default content of a default fill, you can set the
name
kwarg to\"default\"
.
Previously, a default fill would be defined simply by omitting the
{% fill %}
tags:{% component \"child\" %}\n Hello world\n{% endcomponent %}\n
But in that case you could not access the slot data or the default content, like it's possible for named fills:
{% component \"child\" %}\n {% fill name=\"header\" data=\"data\" %}\n Hello {{ data.user.name }}\n {% endfill %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
Now, you can specify default tag by using
name=\"default\"
:{% component \"child\" %}\n {% fill name=\"default\" data=\"data\" %}\n Hello {{ data.user.name }}\n {% endfill %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
- When inside
get_context_data()
or other component methods, the default fill can now be accessed asComponent.input.slots[\"default\"]
, e.g.:
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- You can now dynamically pass all slots to a child component. This is similar to passing all slots in Vue:
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default
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flags individually.
<div class=\"calendar-component\">\n <div class=\"header\">\n {% slot \"image\" default required %}Image here{% endslot %}\n </div>\n <div class=\"body\">\n {% slot \"image\" default required %}Image here{% endslot %}\n </div>\n</div>\n
This means you can also have multiple slots with the same name but different conditions.
E.g. in this example, we have a component that renders a user avatar - a small circular image with a profile picture of name initials.
If the component is given
image_src
orname_initials
variables, theimage
slot is optional. But if neither of those are provided, you MUST fill theimage
slot.<div class=\"avatar\">\n {% if image_src %}\n {% slot \"image\" default %}\n <img src=\"{{ image_src }}\" />\n {% endslot %}\n {% elif name_initials %}\n {% slot \"image\" default required %}\n <div style=\"\n border-radius: 25px;\n width: 50px;\n height: 50px;\n background: blue;\n \">\n {{ name_initials }}\n </div>\n {% endslot %}\n {% else %}\n {% slot \"image\" default required / %}\n {% endif %}\n</div>\n
- The slot fills that were passed to a component and which can be accessed as
Component.input.slots
can now be passed through the Django template, e.g. as inputs to other tags.
Internally, django-components handles slot fills as functions.
Previously, if you tried to pass a slot fill within a template, Django would try to call it as a function.
Now, something like this is possible:
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{% slot %}
and{% fill %}
tags is still the preferred method, but the approach above may be necessary in some complex or edge cases.- The
is_filled
variable (and the{{ component_vars.is_filled }}
context variable) now returnsFalse
when you try to access a slot name which has not been defined:
Before:
{{ component_vars.is_filled.header }} -> True\n{{ component_vars.is_filled.footer }} -> False\n{{ component_vars.is_filled.nonexist }} -> \"\" (empty string)\n
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Components no longer raise an error if there are extra slot fills
-
Components will raise error when a slot is doubly-filled.
E.g. if we have a component with a default slot:
{% slot name=\"content\" default / %}\n
Now there is two ways how we can target this slot: Either using
name=\"default\"
orname=\"content\"
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Installation changes:
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You now must define
STATICFILES_FINDERS
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See here how to migrate your settings.py
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- Beside the top-level
/components
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template
,get_template
,template_name
, orget_template_name
.
-
Run-time type validation for Python 3.11+ - If the
Component
class is typed, e.g.Component[Args, Kwargs, ...]
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Render hooks - Set
on_render_before
andon_render_after
methods onComponent
to intercept or modify the template or context before rendering, or the rendered result afterwards. (See Component hooks) -
component_vars.is_filled
context variable can be accessed from withinon_render_before
andon_render_after
hooks asself.is_filled.my_slot
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Component.input
to raiseRuntimeError
if accessed outside of render context. Previously it returnedNone
if unset.
-
django_components now automatically configures Django to support multi-line tags. (See Multi-line tags)
-
New setting
reload_on_template_change
. Set this toTrue
to reload the dev server on changes to component template files. (See Reload dev server on component file changes)
-
Spread operator
...dict
inside template tags. (See Spread operator) -
Use template tags inside string literals in component inputs. (See Use template tags inside component inputs)
-
Dynamic slots, fills and provides - The
name
argument for these can now be a variable, a template expression, or via spread operator -
Component library authors can now configure
CONTEXT_BEHAVIOR
andTAG_FORMATTER
settings independently from user settings.
Component
class is no longer a subclass ofView
. To configure theView
class, set theComponent.View
nested class. HTTP methods likeget
orpost
can still be defined directly onComponent
class, andComponent.as_view()
internally callsComponent.View.as_view()
. (See Modifying the View class)
-
The inputs (args, kwargs, slots, context, ...) that you pass to
Component.render()
can be accessed from withinget_context_data
,get_template
andget_template_name
viaself.input
. (See Accessing data passed to the component) -
Typing:
Component
class supports generics that specify types forComponent.render
(See Adding type hints with Generics)
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All tags (
component
,slot
,fill
, ...) now support \"self-closing\" or \"inline\" form, where you can omit the closing tag:{# Before #}\n{% component \"button\" %}{% endcomponent %}\n{# After #}\n{% component \"button\" / %}\n
-
All tags now support the \"dictionary key\" or \"aggregate\" syntax (
kwarg:key=val
):{% component \"button\" attrs:class=\"hidden\" %}\n
-
You can change how the components are written in the template with TagFormatter.
The default is
django_components.component_formatter
:{% component \"button\" href=\"...\" disabled %}\n Click me!\n{% endcomponent %}\n
While
django_components.shorthand_component_formatter
allows you to write components like so:{% button href=\"...\" disabled %}\n Click me!\n{% endbutton %}\n
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Autodiscovery module resolution changed. Following undocumented behavior was removed:
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Previously, autodiscovery also imported any
[app]/components.py
files, and usedSETTINGS_MODULE
to search for component dirs.To migrate from:
-
[app]/components.py
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setting, or import each module inside theAppConfig.ready()
hook in respectiveapps.py
files. -
SETTINGS_MODULE
- Define component dirs usingSTATICFILES_DIRS
-
-
Previously, autodiscovery handled relative files in
STATICFILES_DIRS
. To align with Django,STATICFILES_DIRS
now must be full paths (Django docs).
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- The order of arguments to
render_to_response
has changed, to align with the (now public)render
method ofComponent
class.
-
Component.render()
is public and documented -
Slots passed
render_to_response
andrender
can now be rendered also as functions.
- Vue-like provide/inject with the
{% provide %}
tag andinject()
method.
- Default value for the
COMPONENTS.context_behavior
setting was changes from\"isolated\"
to\"django\"
. If you did not set this value explicitly before, this may be a breaking change. See the rationale for change here.
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The syntax for accessing default slot content has changed from
{% fill \"my_slot\" as \"alias\" %}\n {{ alias.default }}\n{% endfill %}\n
to
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-
{% html_attrs %}
tag for formatting data as HTML attributes -
prefix:key=val
construct for passing dicts to components
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{% if_filled \"my_slot\" %}
tags were replaced with{{ component_vars.is_filled.my_slot }}
variables. -
Simplified settings -
slot_context_behavior
andcontext_behavior
were merged. See the documentation for more details.
- Changed the default way how context variables are resolved in slots. See the documentation for more details.
-
{% component_block %}
is now{% component %}
, and{% component %}
blocks need an ending{% endcomponent %}
tag.The new
python manage.py upgradecomponent
command can be used to upgrade a directory (use--path
argument to point to each dir) of templates that use components to the new syntax automatically.This change is done to simplify the API in anticipation of a 1.0 release of django_components. After 1.0 we intend to be stricter with big changes like this in point releases.
- Components as views, which allows you to handle requests and render responses from within a component. See the documentation for more details.
- 'implicit' slot filling and the
default
option forslot
tags.
- A second installable app
django_components.safer_staticfiles
. It provides the same behavior asdjango.contrib.staticfiles
but with extra security guarantees (more info below in Security Notes).
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Changed the syntax for
{% slot %}
tags. From now on, we separate defining a slot ({% slot %}
) from filling a slot with content ({% fill %}
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All files inside components subdirectores are autoimported to simplify setup.
An existing project might start to get
AlreadyRegistered
errors because of this. To solve this, either remove your custom loading of components, or set\"autodiscover\": False
insettings.COMPONENTS
.
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Renamed
Component.context
andComponent.template
toget_context_data
andget_template_name
. The old methods still work, but emit a deprecation warning.This change was done to sync naming with Django's class based views, and make using django-components more familiar to Django users.
Component.context
andComponent.template
will be removed when version 1.0 is released.
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Create a Django project with a similar structure:
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Write your components and register them with your instance of
ComponentRegistry
There's one difference when you are writing components that are to be shared, and that's that the components must be explicitly registered with your instance of
ComponentRegistry
from the previous step.For better user experience, you can also define the types for the args, kwargs, slots and data.
It's also a good idea to have a common prefix for your components, so they can be easily distinguished from users' components. In the example below, we use the prefix
my_
/My
.from typing import Dict, NotRequired, Optional, Tuple, TypedDict\n\nfrom django_components import Component, SlotFunc, register, types\n\nfrom myapp.templatetags.mytags import comp_registry\n\n# Define the types\nclass EmptyDict(TypedDict):\n pass\n\ntype MyMenuArgs = Tuple[int, str]\n\nclass MyMenuSlots(TypedDict):\n default: NotRequired[Optional[SlotFunc[EmptyDict]]]\n\nclass MyMenuProps(TypedDict):\n vertical: NotRequired[bool]\n klass: NotRequired[str]\n style: NotRequired[str]\n\n# Define the component\n# NOTE: Don't forget to set the `registry`!\n@register(\"my_menu\", registry=comp_registry)\nclass MyMenu(Component[MyMenuArgs, MyMenuProps, MyMenuSlots, Any, Any, Any]):\n def get_context_data(\n self,\n *args,\n attrs: Optional[Dict] = None,\n ):\n return {\n \"attrs\": attrs,\n }\n\n template: types.django_html = \"\"\"\n {# Load django_components template tags #}\n {% load component_tags %}\n\n <div {% html_attrs attrs class=\"my-menu\" %}>\n <div class=\"my-menu__content\">\n {% slot \"default\" default / %}\n </div>\n </div>\n \"\"\"\n
-
Import the components in
apps.py
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COMPONENTS.dirs
to load the component files.Since you, as the library author, are not in control of the file system, it is recommended to load the components manually.
We recommend doing this in the
AppConfig.ready()
hook of yourapps.py
:from django.apps import AppConfig\n\nclass MyAppConfig(AppConfig):\n default_auto_field = \"django.db.models.BigAutoField\"\n name = \"myapp\"\n\n # This is the code that gets run when user adds myapp\n # to Django's INSTALLED_APPS\n def ready(self) -> None:\n # Import the components that you want to make available\n # inside the templates.\n from myapp.templates import (\n menu,\n table,\n )\n
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And that's it! The next step is to publish it.
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Notes on publishing:
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{% my_menu title=\"Abc...\" %}\n Hello World!\n{% endmy_menu %}\n
In previous examples you could repeatedly see us using
@register()
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In the example below, each
tab_item
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{% provide %}
taginject()
method of theComponent
class
Prop drilling refers to a scenario in UI development where you need to pass data through many layers of a component tree to reach the nested components that actually need the data.
Normally, you'd use props to send data from a parent component to its children. However, this straightforward method becomes cumbersome and inefficient if the data has to travel through many levels or if several components scattered at different depths all need the same piece of information.
This results in a situation where the intermediate components, which don't need the data for their own functioning, end up having to manage and pass along these props. This clutters the component tree and makes the code verbose and harder to manage.
A neat solution to avoid prop drilling is using the \"provide and inject\" technique.
With provide / inject, a parent component acts like a data hub for all its descendants. This setup allows any component, no matter how deeply nested it is, to access the required data directly from this centralized provider without having to messily pass props down the chain. This approach significantly cleans up the code and makes it easier to maintain.
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provide
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{% component %}
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tag.In the example from previous section, we've defined two kwargs:
key=\"hi\" another=123
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, we get an object with 2 attributes -key
andanother
.class ChildComponent(Component):\n def get_context_data(self):\n my_data = self.inject(\"my_data\")\n print(my_data.key) # hi\n print(my_data.another) # 123\n return {}\n
First argument to
inject
is the key (or name) of the provided data. This must match the string that you used in theprovide
tag. If no provider with given key is found,inject
raises aKeyError
.To avoid the error, you can pass a second argument to
inject
to which will act as a default value, similar todict.get(key, default)
:class ChildComponent(Component):\n def get_context_data(self):\n my_data = self.inject(\"invalid_key\", DEFAULT_DATA)\n assert my_data == DEFAUKT_DATA\n return {}\n
The instance returned from
inject()
is a subclass ofNamedTuple
, so the instance is immutable. This ensures that the data returned frominject
will always have all the keys that were passed to theprovide
tag.NOTE:
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works strictly only inget_context_data
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renders:
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If:
- Your components use JS and CSS via any of:
Component.css
Component.js
Component.Media.css
Component.Media.js
- And you use the
ComponentDependencyMiddleware
middleware
Then, by default, the components' JS and CSS will be automatically inserted into the HTML:
- CSS styles will be inserted at the end of the
<head>
- JS scripts will be inserted at the end of the
<body>
If you want to place the dependencies elsewhere in the HTML, you can override the locations by inserting following Django template tags:
{% component_js_dependencies %}
- Set new location(s) for JS scripts{% component_css_dependencies %}
- Set new location(s) for CSS styles
So if you have a component with JS and CSS:
from django_components import Component, types\n\nclass MyButton(Component):\n template: types.django_html = \"\"\"\n <button class=\"my-button\">\n Click me!\n </button>\n \"\"\"\n js: types.js = \"\"\"\n for (const btnEl of document.querySelectorAll(\".my-button\")) {\n btnEl.addEventListener(\"click\", () => {\n console.log(\"BUTTON CLICKED!\");\n });\n }\n \"\"\"\n css: types.css \"\"\"\n .my-button {\n background: green;\n }\n \"\"\"\n\n class Media:\n js = [\"/extra/script.js\"]\n css = [\"/extra/style.css\"]\n
Then the JS from
MyButton.js
andMyButton.Media.js
will be rendered at the default place, or in{% component_js_dependencies %}
.And the CSS from
MyButton.css
andMyButton.Media.css
will be rendered at the default place, or in{% component_css_dependencies %}
.And if you don't specify
{% component_dependencies %}
tags, it is the equivalent of:
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ComponentDependencyMiddleware
is a Django middleware designed to manage and inject CSS / JS dependencies of rendered components dynamically. It ensures that only the necessary stylesheets and scripts are loaded in your HTML responses, based on the components used in your Django templates.To set it up, add the middleware to your
MIDDLEWARE
insettings.py
:
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render_dependencies
and rendering JS / CSS without the middleware","text":"For most scenarios, using the
ComponentDependencyMiddleware
middleware will be just fine.However, this section is for you if you want to:
- Render HTML that will NOT be sent as a server response
- Insert pre-rendered HTML into another component
- Render HTML fragments (partials)
Every time there is an HTML string that has parts which were rendered using components, and any of those components has JS / CSS, then this HTML string MUST be processed with
render_dependencies()
.It is actually
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that finds all used components in the HTML string, and inserts the component's JS and CSS into{% component_dependencies %}
tags, or at the default locations.The truth is that the
ComponentDependencyMiddleware
middleware just callsrender_dependencies()
, passing in the HTML content. So if you render a template that contained{% component %}
tags, you MUST pass the result throughrender_dependencies()
. And the middleware is just one of the options.Here is how you can achieve the same, without the middleware, using
render_dependencies()
:from django.template.base import Template\nfrom django.template.context import Context\nfrom django_component import render_dependencies\n\ntemplate = Template(\"\"\"\n {% load component_tags %}\n <!doctype html>\n <html>\n <head>\n <title>MyPage</title>\n </head>\n <body>\n <main>\n {% component \"my_button\" %}\n Click me!\n {% endcomponent %}\n </main>\n </body>\n </html>\n\"\"\")\n\nrendered = template.render(Context())\nrendered = render_dependencies(rendered)\n
Same applies if you render a template using Django's
django.shortcuts.render
:from django.shortcuts import render\n\ndef my_view(request):\n rendered = render(request, \"pages/home.html\")\n rendered = render_dependencies(rendered)\n return rendered\n
Alternatively, when you render HTML with
Component.render()
orComponent.render_to_response()
, these, by default, callrender_dependencies()
for you, so you don't have to:
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In previous section we've shown that
render_dependencies()
does NOT need to be called when you render a component viaComponent.render()
.API of django_components makes it possible to compose components in a \"React-like\" way, where we pre-render a piece of HTML and then insert it into a larger structure.
To do this, you must add
render_dependencies=False
to the nested components:card_actions = CardActions.render(\n kwargs={\"editable\": editable},\n render_dependencies=False,\n)\n\ncard = Card.render(\n slots={\"actions\": card_actions},\n render_dependencies=False,\n)\n\npage = MyPage.render(\n slots={\"card\": card},\n)\n
Why is
render_dependencies=False
required?This is a technical limitation of the current implementation.
As mentioned earlier, each time we call
Component.render()
, we also callrender_dependencies()
.However, there is a problem here - When we call
render_dependencies()
insideCardActions.render()
, we extract and REMOVE the info on components' JS and CSS from the HTML. But the template ofCardActions
contains no{% component_depedencies %}
tags, and nor<head>
nor<body>
HTML tags. So the component's JS and CSS will NOT be inserted, and will be lost.To work around this, you must set
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when rendering pieces of HTML withComponent.render()
and inserting them into larger structures.- Every time you render HTML that contained components, you have to call
render_dependencies()
on the rendered output. - There are several ways to call
render_dependencies()
:- Using the
ComponentDependencyMiddleware
middleware - Rendering the HTML by calling
Component.render()
withrender_dependencies=True
(default) - Rendering the HTML by calling
Component.render_to_response()
(always renders dependencies) - Directly passing rendered HTML to
render_dependencies()
- Using the
- If you pre-render one component to pass it into another, the pre-rendered component must be rendered with
render_dependencies=False
.
New in version 0.89
By default, components are rendered using the pair of
{% component %}
/{% endcomponent %}
template tags:{% component \"button\" href=\"...\" disabled %}\nClick me!\n{% endcomponent %}\n\n{# or #}\n\n{% component \"button\" href=\"...\" disabled / %}\n
You can change this behaviour in the settings under the
COMPONENTS.tag_formatter
.For example, if you set the tag formatter to
django_components.component_shorthand_formatter
then the components' names will be used as the template tags:
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django_components provides following predefined TagFormatters:
ComponentFormatter
(django_components.component_formatter
)
Default
Uses the
component
andendcomponent
tags, and the component name is gives as the first positional argument.Example as block:
{% component \"button\" href=\"...\" %}\n {% fill \"content\" %}\n ...\n {% endfill %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
Example as inlined tag:
{% component \"button\" href=\"...\" / %}\n
ShorthandComponentFormatter
(django_components.component_shorthand_formatter
)
Uses the component name as start tag, and
end<component_name>
as an end tag.Example as block:
{% button href=\"...\" %}\n Click me!\n{% endbutton %}\n
Example as inlined tag:
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First, let's discuss how TagFormatters work, and how components are rendered in django_components.
When you render a component with
{% component %}
(or your own tag), the following happens:component
must be registered as a Django's template tag- Django triggers django_components's tag handler for tag
component
. - The tag handler passes the tag contents for pre-processing to
TagFormatter.parse()
.
So if you render this:
{% component \"button\" href=\"...\" disabled %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
Then
TagFormatter.parse()
will receive a following input:[\"component\", '\"button\"', 'href=\"...\"', 'disabled']\n
TagFormatter
extracts the component name and the remaining input.
So, given the above,
TagFormatter.parse()
returns the following:TagResult(\n component_name=\"button\",\n tokens=['href=\"...\"', 'disabled']\n)\n
- The tag handler resumes, using the tokens returned from
TagFormatter
.
So, continuing the example, at this point the tag handler practically behaves as if you rendered:
{% component href=\"...\" disabled %}\n
- Tag handler looks up the component
button
, and passes the args, kwargs, and slots to it.
TagFormatter
handles following parts of the process above:-
Generates start/end tags, given a component. This is what you then call from within your template as
{% component %}
. -
When you
{% component %}
, tag formatter pre-processes the tag contents, so it can link back the custom template tag to the right component.
To do so, subclass from
TagFormatterABC
and implement following method:start_tag
end_tag
parse
For example, this is the implementation of
ShorthandComponentFormatter
class ShorthandComponentFormatter(TagFormatterABC):\n # Given a component name, generate the start template tag\n def start_tag(self, name: str) -> str:\n return name # e.g. 'button'\n\n # Given a component name, generate the start template tag\n def end_tag(self, name: str) -> str:\n return f\"end{name}\" # e.g. 'endbutton'\n\n # Given a tag, e.g.\n # `{% button href=\"...\" disabled %}`\n #\n # The parser receives:\n # `['button', 'href=\"...\"', 'disabled']`\n def parse(self, tokens: List[str]) -> TagResult:\n tokens = [*tokens]\n name = tokens.pop(0)\n return TagResult(\n name, # e.g. 'button'\n tokens # e.g. ['href=\"...\"', 'disabled']\n )\n
That's it! And once your
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is ready, don't forget to update the settings!New in version 0.92
The
Component
class optionally accepts type parameters that allow you to specify the types of args, kwargs, slots, and data:class Button(Component[Args, Kwargs, Slots, Data, JsData, CssData]):\n ...\n
Args
- Must be aTuple
orAny
Kwargs
- Must be aTypedDict
orAny
Data
- Must be aTypedDict
orAny
Slots
- Must be aTypedDict
orAny
Here's a full example:
from typing import NotRequired, Tuple, TypedDict, SlotContent, SlotFunc\n\n# Positional inputs\nArgs = Tuple[int, str]\n\n# Kwargs inputs\nclass Kwargs(TypedDict):\n variable: str\n another: int\n maybe_var: NotRequired[int] # May be ommited\n\n# Data returned from `get_context_data`\nclass Data(TypedDict):\n variable: str\n\n# The data available to the `my_slot` scoped slot\nclass MySlotData(TypedDict):\n value: int\n\n# Slots\nclass Slots(TypedDict):\n # Use SlotFunc for slot functions.\n # The generic specifies the `data` dictionary\n my_slot: NotRequired[SlotFunc[MySlotData]]\n # SlotContent == Union[str, SafeString]\n another_slot: SlotContent\n\nclass Button(Component[Args, Kwargs, Slots, Data, JsData, CssData]):\n def get_context_data(self, variable, another):\n return {\n \"variable\": variable,\n }\n
When you then call
Component.render
orComponent.render_to_response
, you will get type hints:
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On Python 3.8-3.10, use
typing_extensions
from typing_extensions import TypedDict, NotRequired\n
Additionally on Python 3.8-3.9, also import
annotations
:from __future__ import annotations\n
Moreover, on 3.10 and less, you may not be able to use
NotRequired
, and instead you will need to mark either all keys are required, or all keys as optional, using TypeDict'stotal
kwarg.See PEP-655 for more info.
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def get_context_data(self, *args, **kwargs):\n ...\n
This is not supported with the typed components.
As a workaround:
- For
*args
, set a positional argument that accepts a list of values:
# Tuple of one member of list of strings\nArgs = Tuple[List[str]]\n
- For
*kwargs
, set a keyword argument that accepts a dictionary of values:
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To declare that a component accepts no Args, Kwargs, etc, you can use
EmptyTuple
andEmptyDict
types:
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New in version 0.96
NOTE: Kwargs, slots, and data validation is supported only for Python >=3.11
In Python 3.11 and later, when you specify the component types, you will get also runtime validation of the inputs you pass to
Component.render
orComponent.render_to_response
.So, using the example from before, if you ignored the type errors and still ran the following code:
Button.render(\n # Error: First arg must be `int`, got `float`\n args=(1.25, \"abc\"),\n # Error: Key \"another\" is missing\n kwargs={\n \"variable\": \"text\",\n },\n)\n
This would raise a
TypeError
:Component 'Button' expected positional argument at index 0 to be <class 'int'>, got 1.25 of type <class 'float'>\n
In case you need to skip these errors, you can either set the faulty member to
Any
, e.g.:# Changed `int` to `Any`\nArgs = Tuple[Any, str]\n
Or you can replace
Args
withAny
altogether, to skip the validation of args:# Replaced `Args` with `Any`\nclass Button(Component[Any, Kwargs, Slots, Data, JsData, CssData]):\n ...\n
Same applies to kwargs, data, and slots.
"},{"location":"concepts/fundamentals/access_component_input/","title":"Accessing component inputs","text":"When you call
Component.render
orComponent.render_to_response
, the inputs to these methods can be accessed from within the instance underself.input
.This means that you can use
self.input
inside:get_context_data
get_template_name
get_template
on_render_before
on_render_after
self.input
is only defined during the execution ofComponent.render
, and raises aRuntimeError
when called outside of this context.self.input
has the same fields as the input toComponent.render
:class TestComponent(Component):\n def get_context_data(self, var1, var2, variable, another, **attrs):\n assert self.input.args == (123, \"str\")\n assert self.input.kwargs == {\"variable\": \"test\", \"another\": 1}\n assert self.input.slots == {\"my_slot\": \"MY_SLOT\"}\n assert isinstance(self.input.context, Context)\n\n return {\n \"variable\": variable,\n }\n\nrendered = TestComponent.render(\n kwargs={\"variable\": \"test\", \"another\": 1},\n args=(123, \"str\"),\n slots={\"my_slot\": \"MY_SLOT\"},\n)\n
NOTE: The slots in
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are normalized to slot functions.Every component that you want to use in the template with the
{% component %}
tag needs to be registered with theComponentRegistry
. Normally, we use the@register
decorator for that:from django_components import Component, register\n\n@register(\"calendar\")\nclass Calendar(Component):\n ...\n
But for the component to be registered, the code needs to be executed - the file needs to be imported as a module.
One way to do that is by importing all your components in
apps.py
:from django.apps import AppConfig\n\nclass MyAppConfig(AppConfig):\n name = \"my_app\"\n\n def ready(self) -> None:\n from components.card.card import Card\n from components.list.list import List\n from components.menu.menu import Menu\n from components.button.button import Button\n ...\n
However, there's a simpler way!
By default, the Python files in the
COMPONENTS.dirs
directories (and app-level[app]/components/
) are auto-imported in order to auto-register the components.Autodiscovery occurs when Django is loaded, during the
AppConfig.ready
hook of theapps.py
file.If you are using autodiscovery, keep a few points in mind:
- Avoid defining any logic on the module-level inside the
components
dir, that you would not want to run anyway. - Components inside the auto-imported files still need to be registered with
@register
p - Auto-imported component files must be valid Python modules, they must use suffix
.py
, and module name should follow PEP-8.
Autodiscovery can be disabled in the settings.
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autodiscover
function. This is useful if you want to run autodiscovery at a custom point of the lifecycle:from django_components import autodiscover\n\nautodiscover()\n
To get the same list of modules that
autodiscover()
would return, but without importing them, useget_component_files()
:
"},{"location":"concepts/fundamentals/component_context_scope/","title":"Component context and scope","text":"from django_components import get_component_files\n\nmodules = get_component_files(\".py\")\n
By default, context variables are passed down the template as in regular Django - deeper scopes can access the variables from the outer scopes. So if you have several nested forloops, then inside the deep-most loop you can access variables defined by all previous loops.
With this in mind, the
{% component %}
tag behaves similarly to{% include %}
tag - inside the component tag, you can access all variables that were defined outside of it.And just like with
{% include %}
, if you don't want a specific component template to have access to the parent context, addonly
to the{% component %}
tag:{% component \"calendar\" date=\"2015-06-19\" only / %}\n
NOTE:
{% csrf_token %}
tags need access to the top-level context, and they will not function properly if they are rendered in a component that is called with theonly
modifier.If you find yourself using the
only
modifier often, you can set the context_behavior option to\"isolated\"
, which automatically applies theonly
modifier. This is useful if you want to make sure that components don't accidentally access the outer context.Components can also access the outer context in their context methods like
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by accessing the propertyself.outer_context
.<div>\n {% component \"calender\" / %}\n</div>\n
Assuming that the rendering context has variables such as
date
, you can useself.outer_context
to access them from withinget_context_data
. Here's how you might implement it:class Calender(Component):\n\n ...\n\n def get_context_data(self):\n outer_field = self.outer_context[\"date\"]\n return {\n \"date\": outer_fields,\n }\n
However, as a best practice, it\u2019s recommended not to rely on accessing the outer context directly through
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. Instead, explicitly pass the variables to the component. For instance, continue passing the variables in the component tag as shown in the previous examples.django_components supports both Django and Vue-like behavior when it comes to passing data to and through components. This can be configured in context_behavior.
This has two modes:
-
\"django\"
The default Django template behavior.
Inside the
{% fill %}
tag, the context variables you can access are a union of:- All the variables that were OUTSIDE the fill tag, including any\\
{% with %}
tags. - Any loops (
{% for ... %}
) that the{% fill %}
tag is part of. - Data returned from
Component.get_context_data()
of the component that owns the fill tag.
- All the variables that were OUTSIDE the fill tag, including any\\
-
\"isolated\"
Similar behavior to Vue or React, this is useful if you want to make sure that components don't accidentally access variables defined outside of the component.
Inside the
{% fill %}
tag, you can ONLY access variables from 2 places:- Any loops (
{% for ... %}
) that the{% fill %}
tag is part of. Component.get_context_data()
of the component which defined the template (AKA the \"root\" component).
- Any loops (
Warning
Notice that the component whose
get_context_data()
we use inside{% fill %}
is NOT the same across the two modes!Consider this example:
class Outer(Component):\n template = \\\"\\\"\\\"\n <div>\n {% component \"inner\" %}\n {% fill \"content\" %}\n {{ my_var }}\n {% endfill %}\n {% endcomponent %}\n </div>\n \\\"\\\"\\\"\n
-
\"django\"
-my_var
has access to data fromget_context_data()
of bothInner
andOuter
. If there are variables defined in both, thenInner
overshadowsOuter
. -
\"isolated\"
-my_var
has access to data fromget_context_data()
of ONLYOuter
.
Given this template:
@register(\"root_comp\")\nclass RootComp(Component):\n template = \"\"\"\n {% with cheese=\"feta\" %}\n {% component 'my_comp' %}\n {{ my_var }} # my_var\n {{ cheese }} # cheese\n {% endcomponent %}\n {% endwith %}\n \"\"\"\n\n def get_context_data(self):\n return { \"my_var\": 123 }\n
Then if
get_context_data()
of the component\"my_comp\"
returns following data:{ \"my_var\": 456 }\n
Then the template will be rendered as:
456 # my_var\nfeta # cheese\n
Because
\"my_comp\"
overshadows the outer variable\"my_var\"
, so{{ my_var }}
equals456
.And variable
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equalsfeta
, because the fill CAN access all the data defined in the outer layers, like the{% with %}
tag.Given this template:
class RootComp(Component):\n template = \"\"\"\n {% with cheese=\"feta\" %}\n {% component 'my_comp' %}\n {{ my_var }} # my_var\n {{ cheese }} # cheese\n {% endcomponent %}\n {% endwith %}\n \"\"\"\n\n def get_context_data(self):\n return { \"my_var\": 123 }\n
Then if
get_context_data()
of the component\"my_comp\"
returns following data:{ \"my_var\": 456 }\n
Then the template will be rendered as:
123 # my_var\n # cheese\n
Because variables
\"my_var\"
and\"cheese\"
are searched only insideRootComponent.get_context_data()
. But since\"cheese\"
is not defined there, it's empty.Info
Notice that the variables defined with the
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tag are ignored inside the{% fill %}
tag with the\"isolated\"
mode.New in version 0.34
Note: Since 0.92, Component no longer subclasses View. To configure the View class, set the nested
Component.View
classComponents can now be used as views:
-
Components define the
Component.as_view()
class method that can be used the same asView.as_view()
. -
By default, you can define GET, POST or other HTTP handlers directly on the Component, same as you do with View. For example, you can override
get
andpost
to handle GET and POST requests, respectively. -
In addition,
Component
now has arender_to_response
method that renders the component template based on the provided context and slots' data and returns anHttpResponse
object.
Here's an example of a calendar component defined as a view:
# In a file called [project root]/components/calendar.py\nfrom django_components import Component, ComponentView, register\n\n@register(\"calendar\")\nclass Calendar(Component):\n\n template = \"\"\"\n <div class=\"calendar-component\">\n <div class=\"header\">\n {% slot \"header\" / %}\n </div>\n <div class=\"body\">\n Today's date is <span>{{ date }}</span>\n </div>\n </div>\n \"\"\"\n\n # Handle GET requests\n def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):\n context = {\n \"date\": request.GET.get(\"date\", \"2020-06-06\"),\n }\n slots = {\n \"header\": \"Calendar header\",\n }\n # Return HttpResponse with the rendered content\n return self.render_to_response(\n context=context,\n slots=slots,\n )\n
Then, to use this component as a view, you should create a
urls.py
file in your components directory, and add a path to the component's view:# In a file called [project root]/components/urls.py\nfrom django.urls import path\nfrom components.calendar.calendar import Calendar\n\nurlpatterns = [\n path(\"calendar/\", Calendar.as_view()),\n]\n
Component.as_view()
is a shorthand for callingView.as_view()
and passing the component instance as one of the arguments.Remember to add
__init__.py
to your components directory, so that Django can find theurls.py
file.Finally, include the component's urls in your project's
urls.py
file:# In a file called [project root]/urls.py\nfrom django.urls import include, path\n\nurlpatterns = [\n path(\"components/\", include(\"components.urls\")),\n]\n
Note: Slots content are automatically escaped by default to prevent XSS attacks. To disable escaping, set
escape_slots_content=False
in therender_to_response
method. If you do so, you should make sure that any content you pass to the slots is safe, especially if it comes from user input.If you're planning on passing an HTML string, check Django's use of
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Component
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Then the request is still handled by
Component.View.get()
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points toComponent.get()
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If you want to define your own
View
class, you need to:- Set the class as
Component.View
- Subclass from
ComponentView
, so the View instance has access to the component instance.
In the example below, we added extra logic into
View.setup()
.Note that the POST handler is still defined at the top. This is because
View
subclassesComponentView
, which defines thepost()
method that callsComponent.post()
.If you were to overwrite the
View.post()
method, thenComponent.post()
would be ignored.
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New in version 0.81
Components can be rendered outside of Django templates, calling them as regular functions (\"React-style\").
The component class defines
render
andrender_to_response
class methods. These methods accept positional args, kwargs, and slots, offering the same flexibility as the{% component %}
tag:class SimpleComponent(Component):\n template = \"\"\"\n {% load component_tags %}\n hello: {{ hello }}\n foo: {{ foo }}\n kwargs: {{ kwargs|safe }}\n slot_first: {% slot \"first\" required / %}\n \"\"\"\n\n def get_context_data(self, arg1, arg2, **kwargs):\n return {\n \"hello\": arg1,\n \"foo\": arg2,\n \"kwargs\": kwargs,\n }\n\nrendered = SimpleComponent.render(\n args=[\"world\", \"bar\"],\n kwargs={\"kw1\": \"test\", \"kw2\": \"ooo\"},\n slots={\"first\": \"FIRST_SLOT\"},\n context={\"from_context\": 98},\n)\n
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-
args
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-
kwargs
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-
slots
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whereslot_content
can be a string orSlotFunc
. -
escape_slots_content
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should be escaped.True
by default to prevent XSS attacks. If you disable escaping, you should make sure that any content you pass to the slots is safe, especially if it comes from user input. -
context
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SlotFunc
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context
- Django's Context available to the Slot Node.data
- Data passed to the{% slot %}
tag. See Scoped Slots.slot_ref
- The default slot content. See Accessing original content of slots.- NOTE: The slot is lazily evaluated. To render the slot, convert it to string with
str(slot_ref)
.
Example:
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render
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render_to_response
, set theComponent.response_class
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First load the
component_tags
tag library, then use thecomponent_[js/css]_dependencies
andcomponent
tags to render the component to the page.{% load component_tags %}\n<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n <title>My example calendar</title>\n {% component_css_dependencies %}\n</head>\n<body>\n {% component \"calendar\" date=\"2015-06-19\" %}{% endcomponent %}\n {% component_js_dependencies %}\n</body>\n<html>\n
NOTE: Instead of writing
{% endcomponent %}
at the end, you can use a self-closing tag:{% component \"calendar\" date=\"2015-06-19\" / %}
The output from the above template will be:
<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n <head>\n <title>My example calendar</title>\n <link\n href=\"/static/calendar/style.css\"\n type=\"text/css\"\n media=\"all\"\n rel=\"stylesheet\"\n />\n </head>\n <body>\n <div class=\"calendar-component\">\n Today's date is <span>2015-06-19</span>\n </div>\n <script src=\"/static/calendar/script.js\"></script>\n </body>\n <html></html>\n</html>\n
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Media
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As seen in the getting started example, to associate HTML/JS/CSS files with a component, you set them as
template_name
,Media.js
andMedia.css
respectively:# In a file [project root]/components/calendar/calendar.py\nfrom django_components import Component, register\n\n@register(\"calendar\")\nclass Calendar(Component):\n template_name = \"template.html\"\n\n class Media:\n css = \"style.css\"\n js = \"script.js\"\n
In the example above, the files are defined relative to the directory where
component.py
is.Alternatively, you can specify the file paths relative to the directories set in
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orCOMPONENTS.app_dirs
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COMPONENTS.dirs
contains path[project root]/components
, we can rewrite the example as:# In a file [project root]/components/calendar/calendar.py\nfrom django_components import Component, register\n\n@register(\"calendar\")\nclass Calendar(Component):\n template_name = \"calendar/template.html\"\n\n class Media:\n css = \"calendar/style.css\"\n js = \"calendar/script.js\"\n
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You can define which stylesheets will be associated with which CSS Media types. You do so by defining CSS files as a dictionary.
See the corresponding Django Documentation.
Again, you can set either a single file or a list of files per media type:
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class MyComponent(Component):\n class Media:\n css = {\n \"all\": [\"path/to/style1.css\", \"path/to/style2.css\"],\n \"print\": [\"path/to/style3.css\", \"path/to/style4.css\"],\n }\n
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str
bytes
PathLike
(__fspath__
method)SafeData
(__html__
method)Callable
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)
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In the example above, you could see that when we used
mark_safe
to mark a string as aSafeString
, we had to define the full<script>
/<link>
tag.This is an extension of Django's Paths as objects feature, where \"safe\" strings are taken as is, and accessed only at render time.
Because of that, the paths defined as \"safe\" strings are NEVER resolved, neither relative to component's directory, nor relative to
COMPONENTS.dirs
.\"Safe\" strings can be used to lazily resolve a path, or to customize the
<script>
or<link>
tag for individual paths:
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media_class
","text":"Sometimes you may need to change how all CSS
<link>
or JS<script>
tags are rendered for a given component. You can achieve this by providing your own subclass of Django'sMedia
class to component'smedia_class
attribute.Normally, the JS and CSS paths are passed to
Media
class, which decides how the paths are resolved and how the<link>
and<script>
tags are constructed.To change how the tags are constructed, you can override the
Media.render_js
andMedia.render_css
methods:from django.forms.widgets import Media\nfrom django_components import Component, register\n\nclass MyMedia(Media):\n # Same as original Media.render_js, except\n # the `<script>` tag has also `type=\"module\"`\n def render_js(self):\n tags = []\n for path in self._js:\n if hasattr(path, \"__html__\"):\n tag = path.__html__()\n else:\n tag = format_html(\n '<script type=\"module\" src=\"{}\"></script>',\n self.absolute_path(path)\n )\n return tags\n\n@register(\"calendar\")\nclass Calendar(Component):\n template_name = \"calendar/template.html\"\n\n class Media:\n css = \"calendar/style.css\"\n js = \"calendar/script.js\"\n\n # Override the behavior of Media class\n media_class = MyMedia\n
NOTE: The instance of the
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class (or it's subclass) is available underComponent.media
after the class creation (__new__
).New in version 0.74:
You can use the
html_attrs
tag to render HTML attributes, given a dictionary of values.So if you have a template:
<div class=\"{{ classes }}\" data-id=\"{{ my_id }}\">\n</div>\n
You can simplify it with
html_attrs
tag:<div {% html_attrs attrs %}>\n</div>\n
where
attrs
is:attrs = {\n \"class\": classes,\n \"data-id\": my_id,\n}\n
This feature is inspired by
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tag of django-web-components and \"fallthrough attributes\" feature of Vue.Attributes that are set to
None
orFalse
are NOT rendered.So given this input:
attrs = {\n \"class\": \"text-green\",\n \"required\": False,\n \"data-id\": None,\n}\n
And template:
<div {% html_attrs attrs %}>\n</div>\n
Then this renders:
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In HTML, boolean attributes are usually rendered with no value. Consider the example below where the first button is disabled and the second is not:
<button disabled>Click me!</button> <button>Click me!</button>\n
HTML rendering with
html_attrs
tag orattributes_to_string
works the same way, wherekey=True
is rendered simply askey
, andkey=False
is not render at all.So given this input:
attrs = {\n \"disabled\": True,\n \"autofocus\": False,\n}\n
And template:
<div {% html_attrs attrs %}>\n</div>\n
Then this renders:
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Sometimes you may want to specify default values for attributes. You can pass a second argument (or kwarg
defaults
) to set the defaults.<div {% html_attrs attrs defaults %}>\n ...\n</div>\n
In the example above, if
attrs
contains e.g. theclass
key,html_attrs
will render:class=\"{{ attrs.class }}\"
Otherwise,
html_attrs
will render:
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For the
class
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So if we have a variable
attrs
:attrs = {\n \"class\": \"my-class pa-4\",\n}\n
And on
html_attrs
tag, we set the keyclass
:<div {% html_attrs attrs class=\"some-class\" %}>\n</div>\n
Then these will be merged and rendered as:
<div data-value=\"my-class pa-4 some-class\"></div>\n
To simplify merging of variables, you can supply the same key multiple times, and these will be all joined together:
{# my_var = \"class-from-var text-red\" #}\n<div {% html_attrs attrs class=\"some-class another-class\" class=my_var %}>\n</div>\n
Renders:
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","text":"- Both
attrs
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{% html_attrs attrs defaults key=val %}
or as kwargs
{% html_attrs key=val defaults=defaults attrs=attrs %}
-
Both
attrs
anddefaults
are optional (can be omitted) -
Both
attrs
anddefaults
are dictionaries, and we can define them the same way we define dictionaries for thecomponent
tag. So either asattrs=attrs
orattrs:key=value
. -
All other kwargs are appended and can be repeated.
html_attrs
","text":"Assuming that:
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Then:
- Empty tag
{% html_attr %}
renders (empty string):
- Only kwargs
{% html_attr class=\"some-class\" class=class_from_var data-id=\"123\" %}
renders:
class=\"some-class from-var\" data-id=\"123\"
- Only attrs
{% html_attr attrs %}
renders:
class=\"from-attrs\" type=\"submit\"
- Attrs as kwarg
{% html_attr attrs=attrs %}
renders:
class=\"from-attrs\" type=\"submit\"
- Only defaults (as kwarg)
{% html_attr defaults=defaults %}
renders:
class=\"from-defaults\" role=\"button\"
- Attrs using the
prefix:key=value
construct{% html_attr attrs:class=\"from-attrs\" attrs:type=\"submit\" %}
renders:
class=\"from-attrs\" type=\"submit\"
- Defaults using the
prefix:key=value
construct{% html_attr defaults:class=\"from-defaults\" %}
renders:
class=\"from-defaults\" role=\"button\"
- All together (1) - attrs and defaults as positional args:
{% html_attrs attrs defaults class=\"added_class\" class=class_from_var data-id=123 %}
renders:
class=\"from-attrs added_class from-var\" type=\"submit\" role=\"button\" data-id=123
- All together (2) - attrs and defaults as kwargs args:
{% html_attrs class=\"added_class\" class=class_from_var data-id=123 attrs=attrs defaults=defaults %}
renders:
class=\"from-attrs added_class from-var\" type=\"submit\" role=\"button\" data-id=123
- All together (3) - mixed:
{% html_attrs attrs defaults:class=\"default-class\" class=\"added_class\" class=class_from_var data-id=123 %}
renders:
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","text":"@register(\"my_comp\")\nclass MyComp(Component):\n template: t.django_html = \"\"\"\n <div\n {% html_attrs attrs\n defaults:class=\"pa-4 text-red\"\n class=\"my-comp-date\"\n class=class_from_var\n data-id=\"123\"\n %}\n >\n Today's date is <span>{{ date }}</span>\n </div>\n \"\"\"\n\n def get_context_data(self, date: Date, attrs: dict):\n return {\n \"date\": date,\n \"attrs\": attrs,\n \"class_from_var\": \"extra-class\"\n }\n\n@register(\"parent\")\nclass Parent(Component):\n template: t.django_html = \"\"\"\n {% component \"my_comp\"\n date=date\n attrs:class=\"pa-0 border-solid border-red\"\n attrs:data-json=json_data\n attrs:@click=\"(e) => onClick(e, 'from_parent')\"\n / %}\n \"\"\"\n\n def get_context_data(self, date: Date):\n return {\n \"date\": datetime.now(),\n \"json_data\": json.dumps({\"value\": 456})\n }\n
Note: For readability, we've split the tags across multiple lines.
Inside
MyComp
, we defined a default attributedefaults:class=\"pa-4 text-red\"
So if
attrs
includes keyclass
, the default above will be ignored.MyComp
also definesclass
key twice. It means that whether theclass
attribute is taken fromattrs
ordefaults
, the twoclass
values will be appended to it.So by default,
MyComp
renders:<div class=\"pa-4 text-red my-comp-date extra-class\" data-id=\"123\">...</div>\n
Next, let's consider what will be rendered when we call
MyComp
fromParent
component.MyComp
accepts aattrs
dictionary, that is passed tohtml_attrs
, so the contents of that dictionary are rendered as the HTML attributes.In
Parent
, we make use of passing dictionary key-value pairs as kwargs to define individual attributes as if they were regular kwargs.So all kwargs that start with
attrs:
will be collected into anattrs
dict.attrs:class=\"pa-0 border-solid border-red\"\n attrs:data-json=json_data\n attrs:@click=\"(e) => onClick(e, 'from_parent')\"\n
And
get_context_data
ofMyComp
will receiveattrs
input with following keys:attrs = {\n \"class\": \"pa-0 border-solid\",\n \"data-json\": '{\"value\": 456}',\n \"@click\": \"(e) => onClick(e, 'from_parent')\",\n}\n
attrs[\"class\"]
overrides the default value forclass
, whereas other keys will be merged.So in the end
MyComp
will render:
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If you need to use serialize HTML attributes outside of Django template and the
html_attrs
tag, you can useattributes_to_string
:
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Components can also be defined in a single file, which is useful for small components. To do this, you can use the
[project root]/components/calendar.pytemplate
,js
, andcss
class attributes instead of thetemplate_name
andMedia
. For example, here's the calendar component from above, defined in a single file:# In a file called [project root]/components/calendar.py\nfrom django_components import Component, register, types\n\n@register(\"calendar\")\nclass Calendar(Component):\n def get_context_data(self, date):\n return {\n \"date\": date,\n }\n\n template: types.django_html = \"\"\"\n <div class=\"calendar-component\">Today's date is <span>{{ date }}</span></div>\n \"\"\"\n\n css: types.css = \"\"\"\n .calendar-component { width: 200px; background: pink; }\n .calendar-component span { font-weight: bold; }\n \"\"\"\n\n js: types.js = \"\"\"\n (function(){\n if (document.querySelector(\".calendar-component\")) {\n document.querySelector(\".calendar-component\").onclick = function(){ alert(\"Clicked calendar!\"); };\n }\n })()\n \"\"\"\n
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slot
tag now serves only to declare new slots inside the component template. - To override the content of a declared slot, use the newly introduced
fill
tag instead. - Whereas unfilled slots used to raise a warning, filling a slot is now optional by default.
- To indicate that a slot must be filled, the new
required
option should be added at the end of theslot
tag.
Components support something called 'slots'. When a component is used inside another template, slots allow the parent template to override specific parts of the child component by passing in different content. This mechanism makes components more reusable and composable. This behavior is similar to slots in Vue.
In the example below we introduce two block tags that work hand in hand to make this work. These are...
{% slot <name> %}
/{% endslot %}
: Declares a new slot in the component template.{% fill <name> %}
/{% endfill %}
: (Used inside a{% component %}
tag pair.) Fills a declared slot with the specified content.
Let's update our calendar component to support more customization. We'll add
slot
tag pairs to its template, template.html.<div class=\"calendar-component\">\n <div class=\"header\">\n {% slot \"header\" %}Calendar header{% endslot %}\n </div>\n <div class=\"body\">\n {% slot \"body\" %}Today's date is <span>{{ date }}</span>{% endslot %}\n </div>\n</div>\n
When using the component, you specify which slots you want to fill and where you want to use the defaults from the template. It looks like this:
{% component \"calendar\" date=\"2020-06-06\" %}\n {% fill \"body\" %}\n Can you believe it's already <span>{{ date }}</span>??\n {% endfill %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
Since the 'header' fill is unspecified, it's taken from the base template. If you put this in a template, and pass in
date=2020-06-06
, this is what gets rendered:
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As seen in the previouse section, you can use
{% fill slot_name %}
to insert content into a specific slot.You can define fills for multiple slot simply by defining them all within the
{% component %} {% endcomponent %}
tags:{% component \"calendar\" date=\"2020-06-06\" %}\n {% fill \"header\" %}\n Hi this is header!\n {% endfill %}\n {% fill \"body\" %}\n Can you believe it's already <span>{{ date }}</span>??\n {% endfill %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
You can also use
{% for %}
,{% with %}
, or other non-component tags (even{% include %}
) to construct the{% fill %}
tags, as long as these other tags do not leave any text behind!
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Added in version 0.28
As you can see, component slots lets you write reusable containers that you fill in when you use a component. This makes for highly reusable components that can be used in different circumstances.
It can become tedious to use
fill
tags everywhere, especially when you're using a component that declares only one slot. To make things easier,slot
tags can be marked with an optional keyword:default
.When added to the tag (as shown below), this option lets you pass filling content directly in the body of a
component
tag pair \u2013 without using afill
tag. Choose carefully, though: a component template may contain at most one slot that is marked asdefault
. Thedefault
option can be combined with other slot options, e.g.required
.Here's the same example as before, except with default slots and implicit filling.
The template:
<div class=\"calendar-component\">\n <div class=\"header\">\n {% slot \"header\" %}Calendar header{% endslot %}\n </div>\n <div class=\"body\">\n {% slot \"body\" default %}Today's date is <span>{{ date }}</span>{% endslot %}\n </div>\n</div>\n
Including the component (notice how the
fill
tag is omitted):{% component \"calendar\" date=\"2020-06-06\" %}\n Can you believe it's already <span>{{ date }}</span>??\n{% endcomponent %}\n
The rendered result (exactly the same as before):
<div class=\"calendar-component\">\n <div class=\"header\">Calendar header</div>\n <div class=\"body\">Can you believe it's already <span>2020-06-06</span>??</div>\n</div>\n
You may be tempted to combine implicit fills with explicit
fill
tags. This will not work. The following component template will raise an error when rendered.{# DON'T DO THIS #}\n{% component \"calendar\" date=\"2020-06-06\" %}\n {% fill \"header\" %}Totally new header!{% endfill %}\n Can you believe it's already <span>{{ date }}</span>??\n{% endcomponent %}\n
Instead, you can use a named fill with name
default
to target the default fill:{# THIS WORKS #}\n{% component \"calendar\" date=\"2020-06-06\" %}\n {% fill \"header\" %}Totally new header!{% endfill %}\n {% fill \"default\" %}\n Can you believe it's already <span>{{ date }}</span>??\n {% endfill %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
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Added in version 0.70
You can render the same content in multiple places by defining multiple slots with identical names:
<div class=\"calendar-component\">\n <div class=\"header\">\n {% slot \"image\" %}Image here{% endslot %}\n </div>\n <div class=\"body\">\n {% slot \"image\" %}Image here{% endslot %}\n </div>\n</div>\n
So if used like:
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This renders:
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If you use a slot multiple times, you can still mark the slot as
default
orrequired
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Which you can then use as regular default slot:
{% component \"calendar\" date=\"2020-06-06\" %}\n <img src=\"...\" />\n{% endcomponent %}\n
Since each slot is tagged individually, you can have multiple slots with the same name but different conditions.
E.g. in this example, we have a component that renders a user avatar - a small circular image with a profile picture or name initials.
If the component is given
image_src
orname_initials
variables, theimage
slot is optional. But if neither of those are provided, you MUST fill theimage
slot.
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Added in version 0.26
NOTE: In version 0.77, the syntax was changed from
{% fill \"my_slot\" as \"alias\" %} {{ alias.default }}\n
to
{% fill \"my_slot\" default=\"slot_default\" %} {{ slot_default }}\n
Sometimes you may want to keep the original slot, but only wrap or prepend/append content to it. To do so, you can access the default slot via the
default
kwarg.Similarly to the
data
attribute, you specify the variable name through which the default slot will be made available.For instance, let's say you're filling a slot called 'body'. To render the original slot, assign it to a variable using the
'default'
keyword. You then render this variable to insert the default content:{% component \"calendar\" date=\"2020-06-06\" %}\n {% fill \"body\" default=\"body_default\" %}\n {{ body_default }}. Have a great day!\n {% endfill %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
This produces:
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To access the original content of a default slot, set the name to
default
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Added in version 0.26.
NOTE: In version 0.70,
{% if_filled %}
tags were replaced with{{ component_vars.is_filled }}
variables. If your slot name contained special characters, see the section Accessingis_filled
of slot names with special characters.In certain circumstances, you may want the behavior of slot filling to depend on whether or not a particular slot is filled.
For example, suppose we have the following component template:
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By default the slot named 'subtitle' is empty. Yet when the component is used without explicit fills, the div containing the slot is still rendered, as shown below:
<div class=\"frontmatter-component\">\n <div class=\"title\">Title</div>\n <div class=\"subtitle\"></div>\n</div>\n
This may not be what you want. What if instead the outer 'subtitle' div should only be included when the inner slot is in fact filled?
The answer is to use the
{{ component_vars.is_filled.<name> }}
variable. You can use this together with Django's{% if/elif/else/endif %}
tags to define a block whose contents will be rendered only if the component slot with the corresponding 'name' is filled.This is what our example looks like with
component_vars.is_filled
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Here's our example with more complex branching.
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Sometimes you're not interested in whether a slot is filled, but rather that it isn't. To negate the meaning of
component_vars.is_filled
, simply treat it as boolean and negate it withnot
:
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component_vars.is_filled
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is_filled
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Similarly, you can use
{% if %}
and{% for %}
when defining the{% fill %}
tags, to conditionally fill the slots when using the componnet:In the example below, the
{% fill \"footer\" %}
fill is used only if the condition is true. If falsy, the fill is ignored, and so themy_table
component will use its default content for thefooter
slot.{% component \"my_table\" %}\n {% if editable %}\n {% fill \"footer\" %}\n <input name=\"name\" />\n {% endfill %}\n {% endif %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
You can even combine
{% if %}
and{% for %}
:
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Added in version 0.76:
Consider a component with slot(s). This component may do some processing on the inputs, and then use the processed variable in the slot's default template:
@register(\"my_comp\")\nclass MyComp(Component):\n template = \"\"\"\n <div>\n {% slot \"content\" default %}\n input: {{ input }}\n {% endslot %}\n </div>\n \"\"\"\n\n def get_context_data(self, input):\n processed_input = do_something(input)\n return {\"input\": processed_input}\n
You may want to design a component so that users of your component can still access the
input
variable, so they don't have to recompute it.This behavior is called \"scoped slots\". This is inspired by Vue scoped slots and scoped slots of django-web-components.
Using scoped slots consists of two steps:
- Passing data to
slot
tag - Accessing data in
fill
tag
To pass the data to the
slot
tag, simply pass them as keyword attributes (key=value
):
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Next, we head over to where we define a fill for this slot. Here, to access the slot data we set the
data
attribute to the name of the variable through which we want to access the slot data. In the example below, we set it todata
:{% component \"my_comp\" %}\n {% fill \"content\" data=\"slot_data\" %}\n {{ slot_data.input }}\n {% endfill %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
To access slot data on a default slot, you have to explictly define the
{% fill %}
tags.So this works:
{% component \"my_comp\" %}\n {% fill \"content\" data=\"slot_data\" %}\n {{ slot_data.input }}\n {% endfill %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
While this does not:
{% component \"my_comp\" data=\"data\" %}\n {{ data.input }}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
Note: You cannot set the
data
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attribute) to the same name. This raises an error:
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{% fill name=\"default\" %}
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Until now, we were declaring slot and fill names statically, as a string literal, e.g.
{% slot \"content\" / %}\n
However, sometimes you may want to generate slots based on the given input. One example of this is a table component like that of Vuetify, which creates a header and an item slots for each user-defined column.
In django_components you can achieve the same, simply by using a variable (or a template expression) instead of a string literal:
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When using the component, you can either set the fill explicitly:
{% component \"table\" headers=headers items=items %}\n {% fill \"header-name\" data=\"data\" %}\n <b>{{ data.value }}</b>\n {% endfill %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
Or also use a variable:
{% component \"table\" headers=headers items=items %}\n {# Make only the active column bold #}\n {% fill \"header-{{ active_header_name }}\" data=\"data\" %}\n <b>{{ data.value }}</b>\n {% endfill %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
NOTE: It's better to use static slot names whenever possible for clarity. The dynamic slot names should be reserved for advanced use only.
Lastly, in rare cases, you can also pass the slot name via the spread operator. This is possible, because the slot name argument is actually a shortcut for a
name
keyword argument.So this:
{% slot \"content\" / %}\n
is the same as:
{% slot name=\"content\" / %}\n
So it's possible to define a
name
key on a dictionary, and then spread that onto the slot tag:
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These can then be accessed inside
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New in version 0.93:
Instead of passing keyword arguments one-by-one:
{% component \"calendar\" title=\"How to abc\" date=\"2015-06-19\" author=\"John Wick\" / %}\n
You can use a spread operator
...dict
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{% component \"calendar\" ...post_data / %}\n
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v-bind
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- You cannot use spread operators for positional-only arguments.
Other than that, you can use spread operators multiple times, and even put keyword arguments in-between or after them:
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In a case of conflicts, the values added later (right-most) overwrite previous values.
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Normally, what you would have to do is to define ALL the variables inside
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In the example above:
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test
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title
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id
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readonly
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, e.g.False
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author
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(Comment omitted)
This is inspired by django-cotton.
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The data doesn't necessarily have to be strings. In the example above, the kwarg
id
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When the string literal contains only a single template tag, with no extra text, then the value is passed as the original type instead of a string.
Here,
page
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Here,
page
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And same applies to the
{{ }}
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items
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Here,
items
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You can even go a step further and have a similar experience to Vue or React, where you can evaluate arbitrary code expressions:
<MyForm value={isEnabled ? inputValue : null} />\n
Similar is possible with
django-expr
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tag and filter that you can use to evaluate Python expressions from within the template:{% component \"my_form\"\n value=\"{% expr 'input_value if is_enabled else None' %}\"\n/ %}\n
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Sometimes, a component may expect a dictionary as one of its inputs.
Most commonly, this happens when a component accepts a dictionary of HTML attributes (usually called
attrs
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@register(\"my_comp\")\nclass MyComp(Component):\n template = \"\"\"\n {% component \"other\" attrs=attrs / %}\n \"\"\"\n\n def get_context_data(self, some_id: str):\n attrs = {\n \"class\": \"pa-4 flex\",\n \"data-some-id\": some_id,\n \"@click.stop\": \"onClickHandler\",\n }\n return {\"attrs\": attrs}\n
But as you can see in the case above, the event handler
@click.stop
and stylingpa-4 flex
are disconnected from the template. If the component grew in size and we moved the HTML to a separate file, we would have hard time reasoning about the component's template.Luckily, there's a better way.
When we want to pass a dictionary to a component, we can define individual key-value pairs as component kwargs, so we can keep all the relevant information in the template. For that, we prefix the key with the name of the dict and
:
. So keyclass
of inputattrs
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Sweet! Now all the relevant HTML is inside the template, and we can move it to a separate file with confidence:
{% component \"other\"\n attrs:class=\"pa-4 flex\"\n attrs:data-some-id=some_id\n attrs:@click.stop=\"onClickHandler\"\n/ %}\n
Note: It is NOT possible to define nested dictionaries, so
attrs:my_key:two=2
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By default, Django expects a template tag to be defined on a single line.
However, this can become unwieldy if you have a component with a lot of inputs:
{% component \"card\" title=\"Joanne Arc\" subtitle=\"Head of Kitty Relations\" date_last_active=\"2024-09-03\" ... %}\n
Instead, when you install django_components, it automatically configures Django to suport multi-line tags.
So we can rewrite the above as:
{% component \"card\"\n title=\"Joanne Arc\"\n subtitle=\"Head of Kitty Relations\"\n date_last_active=\"2024-09-03\"\n ...\n%}\n
Much better!
To disable this behavior, set
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A component in django-components is the combination of four things: CSS, Javascript, a Django template, and some Python code to put them all together.
sampleproject/\n \u251c\u2500\u2500 calendarapp/\n \u251c\u2500\u2500 components/ \ud83c\udd95\n \u2502 \u2514\u2500\u2500 calendar/ \ud83c\udd95\n \u2502 \u251c\u2500\u2500 calendar.py \ud83c\udd95\n \u2502 \u251c\u2500\u2500 script.js \ud83c\udd95\n \u2502 \u251c\u2500\u2500 style.css \ud83c\udd95\n \u2502 \u2514\u2500\u2500 template.html \ud83c\udd95\n \u251c\u2500\u2500 sampleproject/\n \u251c\u2500\u2500 manage.py\n \u2514\u2500\u2500 requirements.txt\n
Start by creating empty files in the structure above.
First, you need a CSS file. Be sure to prefix all rules with a unique class so they don't clash with other rules.
[project root]/components/calendar/style.css/* In a file called [project root]/components/calendar/style.css */\n.calendar-component {\n width: 200px;\n background: pink;\n}\n.calendar-component span {\n font-weight: bold;\n}\n
Then you need a javascript file that specifies how you interact with this component. You are free to use any javascript framework you want. A good way to make sure this component doesn't clash with other components is to define all code inside an anonymous function that calls itself. This makes all variables defined only be defined inside this component and not affect other components.
[project root]/components/calendar/script.js/* In a file called [project root]/components/calendar/script.js */\n(function () {\n if (document.querySelector(\".calendar-component\")) {\n document.querySelector(\".calendar-component\").onclick = function () {\n alert(\"Clicked calendar!\");\n };\n }\n})();\n
Now you need a Django template for your component. Feel free to define more variables like
[project root]/components/calendar/calendar.htmldate
in this example. When creating an instance of this component we will send in the values for these variables. The template will be rendered with whatever template backend you've specified in your Django settings file.{# In a file called [project root]/components/calendar/template.html #}\n<div class=\"calendar-component\">Today's date is <span>{{ date }}</span></div>\n
Finally, we use django-components to tie this together. Start by creating a file called
calendar.py
in your component calendar directory. It will be auto-detected and loaded by the app.Inside this file we create a Component by inheriting from the Component class and specifying the context method. We also register the global component registry so that we easily can render it anywhere in our templates.
[project root]/components/calendar/calendar.py# In a file called [project root]/components/calendar/calendar.py\nfrom django_components import Component, register\n\n@register(\"calendar\")\nclass Calendar(Component):\n # Templates inside `[your apps]/components` dir and `[project root]/components` dir\n # will be automatically found.\n #\n # `template_name` can be relative to dir where `calendar.py` is, or relative to COMPONENTS.dirs\n template_name = \"template.html\"\n # Or\n def get_template_name(context):\n return f\"template-{context['name']}.html\"\n\n # This component takes one parameter, a date string to show in the template\n def get_context_data(self, date):\n return {\n \"date\": date,\n }\n\n # Both `css` and `js` can be relative to dir where `calendar.py` is, or relative to COMPONENTS.dirs\n class Media:\n css = \"style.css\"\n js = \"script.js\"\n
And voil\u00e1!! We've created our first component.
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from django_components import Component, types\n\nclass MyTable(Component):\n # Inlined JS\n js: types.js = \"\"\"\n console.log(123);\n \"\"\"\n\n # Inlined CSS\n css: types.css = \"\"\"\n .my-table {\n color: red;\n }\n \"\"\"\n\n # Linked JS / CSS\n class Media:\n js = [\n \"script-one.js\", # STATIC file relative to component file\n \"/script-two.js\", # URL path\n \"https://example.com/script-three.js\", # URL\n ]\n\n css = [\n \"style-one.css\", # STATIC file relative to component file\n \"/style-two.css\", # URL path\n \"https://example.com/style-three.css\", # URL\n ]\n
- Second thing to keep in mind is that all component's are eventually rendered into a string. And so, if we want to associate extra info with a rendered component, it has to be serialized to a string.
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And for this reason, we take the same approach also when we render a component with
Component.render()
- It returns a string.- Thirdly, we also want to add support for JS / CSS variables. That is, that a variable defined on the component would be somehow accessible from within the JS script / CSS style.
A simple approach to this would be to modify the inlined JS / CSS directly, and insert them for each component. But if you had extremely large JS / CSS, and e.g. only a single JS / CSS variable that you want to insert, it would be extremely wasteful to copy-paste the JS / CSS for each component instance.
So instead, a preferred approach here is to defined and insert the inlined JS / CSS only once, and have some kind of mechanism on how we make correct the JS / CSS variables available only to the correct components.
- Last important thing is that we want the JS / CSS dependencies to work also with HTML fragments.
So normally, e.g. when a user hits URL of a web page, the server renders full HTML document, with
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,<html>
,<head>
, and<body>
. In such case, we know about ALL JS and CSS dependencies at render time, so we can e.g. insert them into<head>
and<body>
ourselves.However this renders only the initial state. HTML fragments is a common pattern where interactivity is added to the web page by fetching and replacing bits of HTML on the main HTML document after some user action.
In the case of HTML fragments, the HTML is NOT a proper document, but only the HTML that will be inserted somewhere into the DOM.
The challenge here is that Django template for the HTML fragment MAY contain components, and these components MAY have inlined or linked JS and CSS.
def fragment_view(request):\n template = Template(\"\"\"\n {% load component_tags %}\n <div>\n {% component \"my_table\" / %}\n </div>\n \"\"\")\n\n fragment_str = template.render(Context({}))\n return HttpResponse(fragment_str, status=200)\n
User may use different libraries to fetch and insert the HTML fragments (e.g. HTMX, AlpineJS, ...). From our perspective, the only thing that we can reliably say is that we expect that the HTML fragment WILL be eventually inserted into the DOM.
So to include the corresponding JS and CSS, a simple approach could be to append them to the HTML as
<style>
and<script>
, e.g.:<!-- Original content -->\n<div>...</div>\n<!-- Associated CSS files -->\n<link href=\"http://...\" />\n<style>\n .my-class {\n color: red;\n }\n</style>\n<!-- Associated JS files -->\n<script src=\"http://...\"></script>\n<script>\n console.log(123);\n</script>\n
But this has a number of issues:
- The JS scripts would run for each instance of the component.
- Bloating of the HTML file, as each inlined JS or CSS would be included fully for each component.
- While this sound OK, this could really bloat the HTML files if we used a UI component library for the basic building blocks like buttons, lists, cards, etc.
So the solution should address all the points above. To achieve that, we manage the JS / CSS dependencies ourselves in the browser. So when a full HTML document is loaded, we keep track of which JS and CSS have been loaded. And when an HTML fragment is inserted, we check which JS / CSS dependencies it has, and load only those that have NOT been loaded yet.
This is how we achieve that:
- When a component is rendered, it inserts an HTML comment containing metadata about the rendered component.
So a template like this
{% load component_tags %}\n<div>\n {% component \"my_table\" / %}\n</div>\n{% component \"button\" %}\n Click me!\n{% endcomponent %}\n
May actually render:
<div>\n <!-- _RENDERED \"my_table_10bc2c,c020ad\" -->\n <table>\n ...\n </table>\n</div>\n<!-- _RENDERED \"button_309dcf,31c0da\" -->\n<button>Click me!</button>\n
Each
<!-- _RENDERED -->
comment includes comma-separated data - a unique hash for the component class, e.g.my_table_10bc2c
, and the component ID, e.g.c020ad
.This way, we or the user can freely pass the rendered around or transform it, treating it as a string to add / remove / replace bits. As long as the
<!-- _RENDERED -->
comments remain in the rendered string, we will be able to deduce which JS and CSS dependencies the component needs.- Post-process the rendered HTML, extracting the
<!-- _RENDERED -->
comments, and instead inserting the corresponding JS and CSS dependencies.
If we dealt only with JS, then we could get away with processing the
<!-- _RENDERED -->
comments on the client (browser). However, the CSS needs to be processed still on the server, so the browser receives CSS styles already inserted as<style>
or<link>
HTML tags. Because if we do not do that, we get a flash of unstyled content, as there will be a delay between when the HTML page loaded and when the CSS was fetched and loaded.So, assuming that a user has already rendered their template, which still contains
<!-- _RENDERED -->
comments, we need to extract and process these comments.There's multiple ways to achieve this:
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The approach recommended to the users is to use the
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comments. -
If users are using
Component.render()
orComponent.render_to_response()
, these post-process the<!-- _RENDERED -->
comments by default.- NOTE: Users are able to opt out of the post-processing by setting
render_dependencies=False
.
- NOTE: Users are able to opt out of the post-processing by setting
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For advanced use cases, users may use
render_dependencies()
directly. This is the function that bothComponentDependencyMiddleware
andComponent.render()
call internally.
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, whether called directly, via middleware or other way, does the following:-
Find all
<!-- _RENDERED -->
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Look up the corresponding component class.
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Get the component's inlined JS / CSS from
Component.js/css
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. -
Generate JS script that loads the JS / CSS dependencies.
-
Insert the JS scripts either at the end of
<body>
, or in place of{% component_dependencies %}
/{% component_js_dependencies %}
tags. -
To avoid the flash of unstyled content, we need place the styles into the HTML instead of dynamically loading them from within a JS script. The CSS is placed either at the end of
<head>
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-
We cache the component's inlined JS and CSS, so they can be fetched via an URL, so the inlined JS / CSS an be treated the same way as the JS / CSS dependencies set in
Component.Media.js/css
.- NOTE: While this is currently not entirely necessary, it opens up the doors for allowing plugins to post-process the inlined JS and CSS. Because after it has been post-processed, we need to store it somewhere.
-
Server returns the post-processed HTML.
-
In the browser, the generated JS script from step 2.4 is executed. It goes through all JS and CSS dependencies it was given. If some JS / CSS was already loaded, it is NOT fetched again. Otherwise it generates the corresponding
<script>
or<link>
HTML tags to load the JS / CSS dependencies.
In the browser, the \"dependency manager JS\" may look like this:
// Load JS or CSS script if not loaded already\nComponents.loadJs('<script src=\"/abc/xyz/script.js\">');\nComponents.loadCss('<link href=\"/abc/xyz/style.css\">');\n\n// Or mark one as already-loaded, so it is ignored when\n// we call `loadJs`\nComponents.markScriptLoaded(\"js\", \"/abc/def\");\n
Note that
loadJs() / loadCss()
receive whole<script> / <link>
tags, not just the URL. This is because when Django'sMedia
class renders JS and CSS, it formats it as<script>
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tags. And we allow users to modify how the JS and CSS should be rendered into the<script>
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tags.So, if users decided to add an extra attribute to their
<script>
tags, e.g.<script defer src=\"http://...\"></script>
, then this way we make sure that thedefer
attribute will be present on the<script>
tag when it is inserted into the DOM at the time of loading the JS script.- To be able to fetch component's inlined JS and CSS, django-components adds a URL path under:
/components/cache/<str:comp_cls_hash>.<str:script_type>/
E.g.
/components/cache/my_table_10bc2c.js/
This endpoint takes the component's unique hash, e.g.
my_table_10bc2c
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- All JS / CSS dependencies are loaded / executed only once.
- The approach is compatible with HTML fragments
- The approach is compatible with JS / CSS variables.
- Inlined JS / CSS may be post-processed by plugins
This doc serves as a primer on how component slots and fills are resolved.
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Imagine you have a template. Some kind of text, maybe HTML:
| ------\n| ---------\n| ----\n| -------\n
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Putting that all together, a document may look like this:
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-
Given the above, we want to render the slots with
{% fill %}
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Currently, this consists of 2 steps:
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If a component is rendered within a template using
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Then we simply render the template as usual. And then we reach the
{% slot %}
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-
-
Obtaining the fills from
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used), or if there is a collection of named{% fill %}
tags:Default slot:
| -- {% component \"mycomp\" %} ---\n| ---- STU {{ slot_name }}\n| -- {% endcomponent %} ---\n
Named slots:
| -- {% component \"mycomp\" %} ---\n| ---- {% fill \"slot_a\" %}\n| ------ STU\n| ---- {% endslot %}\n| ---- {% fill \"slot_b\" %}\n| ------ XYZ\n| ---- {% endslot %}\n| -- {% endcomponent %} ---\n
To respect any forloops or other variables defined within the template to which the fills may have access, we:
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{% component %}
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{% fill %}
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{% fill %}
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- Lastly we process the found fills, and make them available to the context, so any slots inside the component may access these fills.
- Render the content between
-
Rendering slots
Slot rendering works similarly to collecting fills, in a sense that we do not search for the slots ahead of the time, but instead let Django handle the rendering of the template, and we step in only when Django come across as
{% slot %}
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- If the slot is marked
default
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In previous section, we said that the
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| -- {% for var in [1, 2, 3] %} ---\n| ---- {% component \"mycomp2\" %} ---\n| ------ {% fill \"first\" %}\n| ------- STU {{ my_var }}\n| ------- {{ var }}\n| ------ {% endfill %}\n| ------ {% fill \"second\" %}\n| -------- {% component var=var my_var=my_var %}\n| ---------- VWX {{ my_var }}\n| -------- {% endcomponent %}\n| ------ {% endfill %}\n| ---- {% endcomponent %} ---\n| -- {% endfor %} ---\n| -------\n
We want the forloop variables to be available inside the
{% fill %}
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While we do not wrap the logic in a function, we do PREPARE IN ADVANCE: 1. The content that should be rendered for each slot 2. The context variables from
get_context_data()
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From relevant StackOverflow thread:
TL;DR is that the server won't reload if it thinks the changed file is in a templates directory, or in a nested sub directory of a templates directory. This is by design.
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reload_on_file_change
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Copyright (c) 2019 Emil Stenstr\u00f6m
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the \"Software\"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED \"AS IS\", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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Render the component and wrap the content in the response class.
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Manages components and makes them available in the template, by default as
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all
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get
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Retrieve all registered
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Retrieve a
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Register a
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Unregister the
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Parameters:
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name
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Type for the variables available inside the component templates.
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Dictonary describing which component slots are filled (
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Subclass of
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class-attribute
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Settings available for django_components.
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app_dirs
(Optional[Sequence[str]]
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(Optional[Sequence[Union[str, PathLike, Tuple[str, str], Tuple[str, PathLike]]]]
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dynamic_component_name
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forbidden_static_files
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libraries
(Optional[List[str]]
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multiline_tags
(Optional[bool]
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reload_on_file_change
(Optional[bool]
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reload_on_template_change
(Optional[bool]
) \u2013 -
static_files_allowed
(Optional[List[Union[str, Pattern]]]
) \u2013 -
static_files_forbidden
(Optional[List[Union[str, Pattern]]]
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tag_formatter
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template_cache_size
(Optional[int]
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instance-attribute
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<app>/my_comps/
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Configure whether, inside a component template, you can use variables from the outside (
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True
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Defaults to
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A list of file extensions (including the leading dot) that define which files within
COMPONENTS.dirs
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collectstatic
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re.Pattern
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Warning
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A list of file extensions (including the leading dot) that define which files within
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Can be set either as direct reference:
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Examples:
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\"django_components.component_formatter\"
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-
django_components.component_shorthand_formatter
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Defaults to
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lru_cache
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cached_template()
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Configure how (and whether) the context is passed to the component fills and what variables are available inside the
{% fill %}
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Options:
django
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DJANGO
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ISOLATED
\u2013
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Example:
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Tuple with no members.
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After that, when you call
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Configuration for a
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Attributes:
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TAG_FORMATTER
(Optional[Union[TagFormatterABC, str]]
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Deprecated. Use
context_behavior
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For example, with the default tag formatter (
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Example:
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-
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The return value from
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-
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Component name extracted from the template tag
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See source code
Search for all python files in
COMPONENTS.dirs
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Create a Template instance that will be cached as per the
COMPONENTS.template_cache_size
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Get directories that may contain component files.
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List[Path]
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COMPONENTS.app_dirs
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Paths that do not point to directories are ignored.
-
BASE_DIR
setting is required. -
The paths in
COMPONENTS.dirs
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get_component_files(suffix: Optional[str] = None) -> List[ComponentFileEntry]\n
See source code
Search for files within the component directories (as defined in
get_component_dirs()
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BASE_DIR
setting to be set.Parameters:
-
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.py
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Example:
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Import modules set in
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-
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-
List[str]
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Class decorator for registering a component to a component registry.
See Registering components.
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ComponentRegistry
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The default and global component registry. Use this instance to directly register or remove components:
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render_dependencies(content: TContent, type: RenderType = 'document') -> TContent\n
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Given a string that contains parts that were rendered by components, this function inserts all used JS and CSS.
By default, the string is parsed as an HTML and: - CSS is inserted at the end of
<head>
(if present) - JS is inserted at the end of<body>
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These are all the Django management commands that will be added by installing
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Create a new django component.
Positional Arguments:
name
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Options:
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,--help
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--path PATH
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COMPONENTS.dirs
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- The path to the component's directory. This is an optional argument. If not provided, the command will use the
--js JS
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script.js
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- The name of the JavaScript file. This is an optional argument. The default value is
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style.css
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- The name of the CSS file. This is an optional argument. The default value is
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template.html
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- The name of the template file. This is an optional argument. The default value is
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--verbose
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False
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- This option allows you to simulate component creation without actually creating any files. This is an optional argument. The default value is
--version
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-v {0,1,2,3}
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--pythonpath PYTHONPATH
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--no-color
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--skip-checks
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Replace
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, respectively.You can also create a component with custom settings by providing additional arguments:
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Updates component and component_block tags to the new syntax
Options:
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This component is given a registered name or a reference to another component, and behaves as if the other component was in its place.
The args, kwargs, and slot fills are all passed down to the underlying component.
Parameters:
-
is
(str | Type[Component]
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-
registry
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-
*args
\u2013Additional data passed to the component.
-
**kwargs
\u2013Additional data passed to the component.
Slots:
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Examples:
Django
{% component \"dynamic\" is=table_comp data=table_data headers=table_headers %}\n {% fill \"pagination\" %}\n {% component \"pagination\" / %}\n {% endfill %}\n{% endcomponent %}\n
Or in case you use the
django_components.component_shorthand_formatter
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Python
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While you could handle this with a series of if / else statements, that's not an extensible approach. Instead, you can use the dynamic component in place of normal components.
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Exception
See source code
The way the
TagFormatter
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behind the scenes un-/registers the template tags with the associated instance of Django'sLibrary
.In other words, if I have registered a component
\"table\"
, and I use the shorthand syntax:{% table ... %}\n{% endtable %}\n
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ComponentRegistry
registers the tagtable
onto the Django's Library instance.However, that means that if we registered a component
\"slot\"
, then we would overwrite the{% slot %}
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object
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Middleware that inserts CSS/JS dependencies for all rendered components at points marked with template tags.
Methods:
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process_response
\u2013
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get_response
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COMPONENTS
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ComponentsSettings
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app_dirs: Optional[Sequence[str]] = None\n
See source code
Specify the app-level directories that contain your components.
Defaults to
[\"components\"]
. That is, for each Django app, we search<app>/components/
for components.The paths must be relative to app, e.g.:
COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n app_dirs=[\"my_comps\"],\n)\n
To search for
<app>/my_comps/
.These locations are searched during autodiscovery, or when you define HTML, JS, or CSS as separate files.
Set to empty list to disable app-level components:
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See source code
Toggle whether to run autodiscovery at the Django server startup.
Defaults to
True
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See source code
Configure whether, inside a component template, you can use variables from the outside (
\"django\"
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). This also affects what variables are available inside the{% fill %}
tags.Also see Component context and scope.
Defaults to
\"django\"
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NOTE:
context_behavior
andslot_context_behavior
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Specify the directories that contain your components.
Defaults to
[Path(settings.BASE_DIR) / \"components\"]
. That is, the rootcomponents/
app.Directories must be full paths, same as with STATICFILES_DIRS.
These locations are searched during autodiscovery, or when you define HTML, JS, or CSS as separate files.
COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n dirs=[BASE_DIR / \"components\"],\n)\n
Set to empty list to disable global components directories:
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See source code
By default, the dynamic component is registered under the name
\"dynamic\"
.In case of a conflict, you can use this setting to change the component name used for the dynamic components.
# settings.py\nCOMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n dynamic_component_name=\"my_dynamic\",\n)\n
After which you will be able to use the dynamic component with the new name:
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Deprecated. Use
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Configure extra python modules that should be loaded.
This may be useful if you are not using the autodiscovery feature, or you need to load components from non-standard locations. Thus you can have a structure of components that is independent from your apps.
Expects a list of python module paths. Defaults to empty list.
Example:
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This would be the equivalent of importing these modules from within Django's
AppConfig.ready()
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In the rare case that you need to manually trigger the import of libraries, you can use the
import_libraries()
function:
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multiline_tags: Optional[bool] = None\n
See source code
Enable / disable multiline support for template tags. If
True
, template tags like{% component %}
or{{ my_var }}
can span multiple lines.Defaults to
True
.Disable this setting if you are making custom modifications to Django's regular expression for parsing templates at
django.template.base.tag_re
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reload_on_file_change: Optional[bool] = None\n
See source code
This is relevant if you are using the project structure where HTML, JS, CSS and Python are in separate files and nested in a directory.
In this case you may notice that when you are running a development server, the server sometimes does not reload when you change component files.
Django's native live reload logic handles only Python files and HTML template files. It does NOT reload when other file types change or when template files are nested more than one level deep.
The setting
reload_on_file_change
fixes this, reloading the dev server even when your component's HTML, JS, or CSS changes.If
True
, django_components configures Django to reload when files insideCOMPONENTS.dirs
orCOMPONENTS.app_dirs
change.See Reload dev server on component file changes.
Defaults to
False
.Warning
This setting should be enabled only for the dev environment!
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Deprecated. Use
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A list of file extensions (including the leading dot) that define which files within
COMPONENTS.dirs
orCOMPONENTS.app_dirs
are treated as static files.If a file is matched against any of the patterns, it's considered a static file. Such files are collected when running
collectstatic
, and can be accessed under the static file endpoint.You can also pass in compiled regexes (
re.Pattern
) for more advanced patterns.By default, JS, CSS, and common image and font file formats are considered static files:
COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n static_files_allowed=[\n \".css\",\n \".js\", \".jsx\", \".ts\", \".tsx\",\n # Images\n \".apng\", \".png\", \".avif\", \".gif\", \".jpg\",\n \".jpeg\", \".jfif\", \".pjpeg\", \".pjp\", \".svg\",\n \".webp\", \".bmp\", \".ico\", \".cur\", \".tif\", \".tiff\",\n # Fonts\n \".eot\", \".ttf\", \".woff\", \".otf\", \".svg\",\n ],\n)\n
Warning
Exposing your Python files can be a security vulnerability. See Security notes.
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A list of file extensions (including the leading dot) that define which files within
COMPONENTS.dirs
orCOMPONENTS.app_dirs
will NEVER be treated as static files.If a file is matched against any of the patterns, it will never be considered a static file, even if the file matches a pattern in
static_files_allowed
.Use this setting together with
static_files_allowed
for a fine control over what file types will be exposed.You can also pass in compiled regexes (
re.Pattern
) for more advanced patterns.By default, any HTML and Python are considered NOT static files:
COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n static_files_forbidden=[\n \".html\", \".django\", \".dj\", \".tpl\",\n # Python files\n \".py\", \".pyc\",\n ],\n)\n
Warning
Exposing your Python files can be a security vulnerability. See Security notes.
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Configure what syntax is used inside Django templates to render components. See the available tag formatters.
Defaults to
\"django_components.component_formatter\"
.Learn more about Customizing component tags with TagFormatter.
Can be set either as direct reference:
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Or as an import string;
COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n \"tag_formatter\": \"django_components.component_formatter\"\n)\n
Examples:
-
\"django_components.component_formatter\"
Set
COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n \"tag_formatter\": \"django_components.component_formatter\"\n)\n
To write components like this:
{% component \"button\" href=\"...\" %}\n Click me!\n{% endcomponent %}\n
-
django_components.component_shorthand_formatter
Set
COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n \"tag_formatter\": \"django_components.component_shorthand_formatter\"\n)\n
To write components like this:
{% button href=\"...\" %}\n Click me!\n{% endbutton %}\n
template_cache_size: Optional[int] = None\n
See source code
Configure the maximum amount of Django templates to be cached.
Defaults to
128
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lru_cache
decorator). This speeds up the next render of the component. As the same component is often used many times on the same page, these savings add up.By default the cache holds 128 component templates in memory, which should be enough for most sites. But if you have a lot of components, or if you are overriding
Component.get_template()
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To remove the cache limit altogether and cache everything, set
template_cache_size
toNone
.COMPONENTS = ComponentsSettings(\n template_cache_size=None,\n)\n
If you want to add templates to the cache yourself, you can use
cached_template()
:
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Tag formatters allow you to change the syntax for calling components from within the Django templates.
Tag formatter are set via the tag_formatter setting.
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The original django_component's component tag formatter, it uses the
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Example as inlined tag:
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The component tag formatter that uses
{% <name> %}
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Example as block:
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Renders one of the components that was previously registered with
@register()
decorator.Args:
name
(str, required): Registered name of the component to render- All other args and kwargs are defined based on the component itself.
If you defined a component
\"my_table\"
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Positional and keyword arguments can be literals or template variables.
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The first positional argument after
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-
Passed as kwarg
name
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If the component defined any slots, you can pass in the content to be placed inside those slots by inserting
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only
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Marks location where CSS link tags should be rendered after the whole HTML has been generated.
Generally, this should be inserted into the
<head>
tag of the HTML.If the generated HTML does NOT contain any
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Marks location where JS link tags should be rendered after the whole HTML has been generated.
Generally, this should be inserted at the end of the
<body>
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Use this tag to insert content into component's slots.
{% fill %}
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Examples:
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withname
set to\"default\"
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{% html_attrs attrs=None defaults=None **kwargs %}\n
See source code
Generate HTML attributes (
key=\"value\"
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Args:
attrs
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dictionary.default
(str, optional): Optional dictionary that holds HTML attributes. On conflict, is overriden with values in theattrs
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The attributes in
attrs
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key=value
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Then
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.Example:
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renders
<div class=\"my-class extra-class\" data-id=\"123\">\n
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The \"provider\" part of the provide / inject feature. Pass kwargs to this tag to define the provider's data. Any components defined within the
{% provide %}..{% endprovide %}
tags will be able to access this data withComponent.inject()
.This is similar to React's
ContextProvider
, or Vue'sprovide()
.Args:
name
(str, required): Provider name. This is the name you will then use inComponent.inject()
.**kwargs
: Any extra kwargs will be passed as the provided data.
Example:
Provide the \"user_data\" in parent component:
@register(\"parent\")\nclass Parent(Component):\n template = \"\"\"\n <div>\n {% provide \"user_data\" user=user %}\n {% component \"child\" / %}\n {% endprovide %}\n </div>\n \"\"\"\n\n def get_context_data(self, user: User):\n return {\n \"user\": user,\n }\n
Since the \"child\" component is used within the
{% provide %} / {% endprovide %}
tags, we can request the \"user_data\" usingComponent.inject(\"user_data\")
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Notice that the keys defined on the
{% provide %}
tag are then accessed as attributes when accessing them withComponent.inject()
.\u2705 Do this
user = self.inject(\"user_data\").user\n
\u274c Don't do this
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See source code
Slot tag marks a place inside a component where content can be inserted from outside.
Learn more about using slots.
This is similar to slots as seen in Web components, Vue or React's
children
.Args:
name
(str, required): Registered name of the component to renderdefault
: Optional flag. If there is a default slot, you can pass the component slot content without using the{% fill %}
tag. See Default slotrequired
: Optional flag. Will raise an error if a slot is required but not given.**kwargs
: Any extra kwargs will be passed as the slot data.
Example:
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Any extra kwargs will be considered as slot data, and will be accessible in the
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Dictonary describing which component slots are filled (
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Use as
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Example:
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This is equivalent to checking if a given key is among the slot fills:
"},{"location":"reference/urls/","title":"Urls","text":""},{"location":"reference/urls/#urls","title":"URLs","text":"class MyTable(Component):\n def get_context_data(self, *args, **kwargs):\n return {\n \"my_slot_filled\": \"my_slot\" in self.input.slots\n }\n
Below are all the URL patterns that will be added by adding
django_components.urls
.See Installation on how to add these URLs to your Django project.
Django components already prefixes all URLs with
components/
. So when you are adding the URLs tourlpatterns
, you can use an empty string as the first argument:
"},{"location":"reference/urls/#list-of-urls","title":"List of URLs","text":"from django.urls import include, path\n\nurlpatterns = [\n ...\n path(\"\", include(\"django_components.urls\")),\n]\n
components/cache/<str:comp_cls_hash>.<str:script_type>/