django-jazzmin VS django-components

There are also alternative admin themes (e.g. https://github.com/farridav/django-jazzmin) that you might like, which would replace the whole look and feel.

You could use Jazzmin > https://django-jazzmin.readthedocs.io/, or you could move the project to Wagtail. You get a lot out of the box with Wagtail but it could be overkill for your project.

You could add some style to the to the admin with this app https://github.com/farridav/django-jazzmin/blob/master/docs/index.md

Instead, if you are looking for an admin replacement you could give a look to django-jazzmin (I’m not the author), it is a recent package and even if there are many issues it seems to be maintained (for now).

This is pretty good. However, there was another one that's been around a bit longer that's also really nice. See here: https://github.com/farridav/django-jazzmin

Django Jazzmin

One of my Favorite ones is Django-Jazzmin which is a drop-in app with plenty of things you can easily customize, including a built-in UI customizer.

I've been using Django Jazzmin. It's got some nuances that I've had to work around but it looks a lot better than the plain admin interface. It's more mobile friendly too but, again, not perfect.

The same can be said of a React frontend that talks to a JSON API. There is some structure, organization, and convention to the API endpoints, one-way data flow, and so on. Otherwise it’s chaos.

On our most recent project we do the same with Django and HTMX. Organized endpoints by component. Composable, reusable server-side components with django-components [1]. And we’ve been orders of magnitude more productive, shipping more in 1-2 months than we did the previous 12-18 months working with React.

[1] https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/django-components

Yes. Or django-components

I use django-components to break templates into very small pieces, and never had any of the issues you describe.

I've been reading about django-components and #slippers components, but don't know about combining Pre or PostCSS, Tailwind or XXX for styling and how to keep the whole thing as simple to maintain as possible. Not willing to go the Bootstrap route, but need to structure a compromise.

I had used this project for creating components https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/django-components/

Also, for simpler cases I include partial templates.

In React it is as simple Django with https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/django-components installed {% component_block "button" intent="primary" %} Now everyone using Django would have to create their own components, they also have to do this in React which is a waste.

I felt the ux around registering new components to be much stronger with https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/django-components although I do like how slippers uses attributes

That said, you might find this package interesting: https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/django-components/