diff --git a/django_components/component.py b/django_components/component.py
index f77a6e76..2db337e9 100644
--- a/django_components/component.py
+++ b/django_components/component.py
@@ -1,12 +1,30 @@
+from django.template.loader import render_to_string
 from .component_registry import ComponentRegistry, AlreadyRegistered, NotRegistered  # NOQA
 
 class Component(object):
+    CSS_TEMPLATE = '<link href="{}" type="text/css" media="{}" rel="stylesheet" />'
+    JS_TEMPLATE = '<script type="text/javascript" src="{}"></script>'
+
     def __init__(self):
         self._media = self.Media()
 
     def context(self):
         return {}
 
+    def render_dependencies(self):
+        out = []
+
+        for css_media, css_path in self._media.css.items():
+            out.append(Component.CSS_TEMPLATE.format(css_path, css_media))
+
+        for js_path in self._media.js:
+            out.append(Component.JS_TEMPLATE.format(js_path))
+
+        return "\n".join(out)
+
+    def render(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        return render_to_string(self._media.template, self.context(*args, **kwargs))
+
     class Media:
         template = None
         css = {}
diff --git a/tests/templates/simple_template.html b/tests/templates/simple_template.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3f2b5995
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/templates/simple_template.html
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Variable: <strong>{{ variable }}</strong>
diff --git a/tests/test_component.py b/tests/test_component.py
index f8ac9b8d..9b3b10a2 100644
--- a/tests/test_component.py
+++ b/tests/test_component.py
@@ -1,23 +1,38 @@
+from textwrap import dedent
 import unittest
+import django
+from django.conf import settings
 from django_components import component
 
 class SimpleComponent(component.Component):
-    def context(self, variable):
+    def context(self, variable=None):
         return {
             "variable": variable,
         }
 
     class Media:
-        template = "template.html"
+        template = "simple_template.html"
         css = {"all": "style.css"}
         js = ("script.js",)
 
 class ComponentRegistryTest(unittest.TestCase):
-    def test_simple_component(self):
+    def setUp(self):
+        settings.configure(
+            TEMPLATES=[{
+                'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
+                'DIRS': ["tests/templates/"],
+            }]
+        )
+        django.setup()
 
+    def test_simple_component(self):
         comp = SimpleComponent()
 
-        self.assertEqual(comp.context("test"), {"variable": "test"})
-        self.assertEqual(comp._media.template, "template.html")
-        self.assertEqual(comp._media.css, {"all": "style.css"})
-        self.assertEqual(comp._media.js, ("script.js",))
+        self.assertEqual(comp.render_dependencies(), dedent("""
+            <link href="style.css" type="text/css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" />
+            <script type="text/javascript" src="script.js"></script>
+        """).strip())
+
+        self.assertEqual(comp.render(variable="test"), dedent("""
+            Variable: <strong>test</strong>
+        """).lstrip())