dream-html VS cookiecutter-django

Compare dream-html vs cookiecutter-django and see what are their differences.

dream-html

Type-safe markup rendering, form validation, and routing for OCaml Dream web framework (by yawaramin)
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dream-html cookiecutter-django
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174 12,406
4.0% 1.2%
9.2 9.8
16 days ago 7 days ago
OCaml Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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dream-html

Posts with mentions or reviews of dream-html. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-01-06.
  • The Future of Htmx
    28 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jan 2025
  • Constructing XML output with dream-html
    1 project | dev.to | 14 Jul 2024
    FOR some time now, I have been maintaining an OCaml library called dream-html. This library is primarily intended to render correctly-constructed HTML, SVG, and MathML. Recently, I added the ability to render well-formed XML markup, which has slightly different rules than HTML. For example, in HTML if you want to write an empty div tag, you do:
  • Hypermedia Systems
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jun 2024
    htmx is a JavaScript library which interprets a set of HTML attributes and JavaScript events. It doesn't have anything to do with static typing. However, it's fairly easy to add a statically-typed layer on top of it eg https://github.com/yawaramin/dream-html
  • Dream-HTML – render HTML, SVG, MathML, Htmx markup from OCaml
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Apr 2024
  • A Response to "Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web?"
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Apr 2024
    There is some truth to this. Imho the next level of htmx is unlocked when you componentize everything like a React app...but with nested routes corresponding to nested components like a Remix app...and using an HTML generation DSL embedded directly in your language, so HTML becomes a first-class citizen of your language's constructs, rather than a templated afterthought. I have a demo of this: https://github.com/yawaramin/dream-html/tree/todoapp/app
  • Second-Guessing the Modern Web
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Sep 2023
    Nowadays I highly recommend HTML embedding libraries directly in the programming language. E.g. ScalaTags https://com-lihaoyi.github.io/scalatags/ or (my own) https://github.com/yawaramin/dream-html

    Yes, you give up the ability of designers and frontend-only people to easily work with the HTML templates. But in exchange you get quite a lot.

  • That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 May 2023
    I found your article very informative and it matches up quite a bit with my own thinking about HTML generation. In fact it looks like we independently arrived at pretty much the same conclusions. A lot of the issues you raise are the impetus behind the way I designed my HTML-generation DSL: https://github.com/yawaramin/dream-html
  • What's the most htmx-ish language for the server side?
    5 projects | /r/htmx | 7 May 2023
    I am developing an HTML generation library on top of Dream, to have great support in the language including htmx support: https://yawaramin.github.io/dream-html/dream-html/Dream_html/index.html
  • dream-html: Generate HTML markup from your Dream backend server
    1 project | /r/ocaml | 2 May 2023
  • My Thoughts on OCaml
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Apr 2023
    Look at this code which prints out an HTML tag: https://github.com/yawaramin/dream-html/blob/main/lib/dream_...

    Initially you might think generating HTML tags from data structures in code should be a simple matter. But there are complexities--some tags are defined as having no child tags, others do. Some tags are purely character data (unstructured text), not structured data. Some are just comments. We need a way to compose multiple tags together into a single 'virtual' tag for flexible HTML generation. All these conditions can be pretty hard to keep track of--unless your compiler does exhaustiveness checking. Then the compiler will tell you if you missed any cases.

    In the example above I didn't make any manual effort to cover all the cases, I simple listed out the cases I wanted to handle in order. The compiler made sure that I didn't miss any.

cookiecutter-django

Posts with mentions or reviews of cookiecutter-django. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-09-10.
  • SaaSavant – SaaS Boilerplate
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Sep 2024
    I found that this django setup was an excellent starting point:

    https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django

  • falco VS cookiecutter-django - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 26 Jan 2024
    Falco, in contrast to cookiecutter-django, aims to enhance the Django developer experience beyond project generation. It provides a CRUD generator and guides on various Django topics such as task queues, multitendency, deployment, realtime, etc.
  • Advanced Python/Django tutorial that ties together multiple technologies
    2 projects | /r/Python | 11 Dec 2023
    It's not a tutorial but it's a resource to generate a Python+Django project with celery and Dockerfiles and other things you mentioned : https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django
  • Setting up Django in a Better Way in 5 Minutes and Understanding How It Works
    8 projects | dev.to | 13 Nov 2023
    There are very useful packages for bootstrapping your Django projects in minutes such as django-cookiecutter and djangox. If you are a seasoned developer I'd highly recommend using one of these instead of what I'm going to show here. But if you are struggling with the project structure of these packages as a beginner to intermediate Django developer and looking to structure your own Django projects in a better way, I have created a lightweight setup that deals with the basics of setting up a Django project with PostgreSQL as database and TailwindCSS as our styling library.
  • A lightweight cookiecutter template for Django - focused specifically on building APIs
    2 projects | /r/Python | 1 Nov 2023
    And so, the idea for cookiecutter-django-lite came into existence. I am an absolute fan of https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django - but for a lot of use cases this template is an overkill so I thought a barebones version of this will be superuseful - and that's how the idea of cookiecutter-django-lite was born.
  • Template for Django Projects
    3 projects | /r/django | 10 Jul 2023
    Consider taking a look at cookiecutter to generate projects from templates. There is also cookiecutter-django. As for your environment variables you should have an example .env file containing all the environment variables required by your project (without setting them) that can be safely pushed into your repository for you and other developers to copy into the actual .env file that'll be used by your project (add this file to .gitignore)
  • Django SaaS Package
    4 projects | /r/django | 25 Jun 2023
    I'm obviously biased, so take what I say with a grain of salt, but I also probably know more about this space than ~anyone else. I'd say that your characterization is pretty accurate. There are many similar products to Pegasus (you can find a pretty comprehensive list here: https://github.com/smirnov-am/awesome-saas-boilerplates) but most of them are either more focused on infrastructure/setup (e.g. cookiecutter-django or - as you noted - far less mature/maintained (most of the others on that list).
  • Need help deploying my first project.
    1 project | /r/django | 18 Jun 2023
    I followed a lot of the guidance found in this "template" here: https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django
  • Where from to start building project?
    1 project | /r/django | 14 Jun 2023
    If you understand all that and just want to get started as quickly as possible, use a project generator such as cookiecutter-django or API Bakery. Note that I'd avoid using these until you have a solid grasp of Django otherwise you'll have no idea what's going on.
  • Is there an easy approach of deploying Celery?
    3 projects | /r/django | 9 May 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dream-html and cookiecutter-django you can also consider the following projects:

htmlgo - A library for writing type-safe HTML in Golang

django-ninja - 💨 Fast, Async-ready, Openapi, type hints based framework for building APIs

litestar - Production-ready, Light, Flexible and Extensible ASGI API framework | Effortlessly Build Performant APIs

django-tailwind - Django + Tailwind CSS = 💚

literal-html - Simple and unsafe HTML/XML templates for TypeScript, using tagged template literals

pegasus-example-apps - Example apps for Saas Pegagus (saaspegasus.com)

template - A simple framework for webapps

celery-progress - Drop in, configurable, dependency-free progress bars for your Django/Celery applications.

rum - Simple, decomplected, isomorphic HTML UI library for Clojure and ClojureScript

budibase - Budibase is an open-source low code platform that helps you build internal tools in minutes 🚀

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heroku-buildpack-python - Heroku's classic buildpack for Python applications.

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