django-compressor VS django-tables2

In general, you can use almost any plain JS library by simply loading it in your view template. For forms specifically, you can write custom widgets and define dependencies to libraries via form assets. django-compressor might be worth a look if you go heavy on this.

Idk, it depends on how much you care about the page loading time. Even without the PurgeCSS filter, I would recommend the Django Compressor app. I use it on all my websites. It automatically merges your css/js files and minifies them (removes white spaces, comments, etc.). It also creates a unique name for the combined CSS so if you changed your CSS files, your users will always see the fresh version, not the cached by the browser one.

django_compressor - for merging and minimizing css and js assets

django-compressor with django-libsass for auto sass compilation

But isn't that what you have django-compressor for?

The external dependencies were downloaded into the static/ folder containing all frontend assets using yarn and a package.json. Other than that, yarn was not used. Next I ran a bash script that removed all files I did not need, keeping the javascript, css and font files that should be served. In html, these files where directly included. I knew that loading many files is bad, so I used django-compressor to combine them into one big file. Conveniently, this tool also provided me with a way to compile scss.

How does this compare to https://github.com/jieter/django-tables2? That one makes it really easy to display database models with column sorting and pagination.

The degree of reusability (Thanks to things like GenericForeignKey and the ubiquity of Django Templates and Django ORM, there are tons of reusable components like django-filter or django-tables)

In Django there is django-tables2 for example, that creates html table from database query.

(eg. "Django apps" like django-filter and django-tables2, which rely on being a slice across the ORM, controller layer, and templating engine.)

From the readthedocs tutorial, A few examples:

I don't see how Axum would enable something like django-tables2 or django-filter which has is vertically integrated with Django's ORM, routing layer, and template system.

I've used actix-web for stuff... but I'm just sick of constantly reinventing the rote boilerplate that things like django-tables2 and django-filter generate for me once I've declared whatever customizations I want.

django-tables2 - like crispy forms but for tables, abstracts away the need to render tables in a template.