ng-bootstrap VS select2

You’ll be using bootstrap to style this app. So you’ll need to install ng-bootstrap.

I'm using the datepicker (ng-boostrap) in a popup and I would like to change the date format to dd-mm-yyyy.

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I'm actually using ng-bootstrap as ngx wasn't playing well with angular elements.

You’ll be using bootstrap to style this app. So you’ll need to install ng-bootstrap.

It's nice for adding a basic accordion quickly, but it does not support animation yet. However for projects with animation, you usually have a framework, which makes it easy for you anyway. E.g. Angular Bootstrap widgets.

https://ng-bootstrap.github.io/#/home

I was trying to work through this tutorial on pagination but I realize that I don't want to have to hardcode arrays. I want the pagination to work dynamically. Can anyone point me to good resources on this?

Most people using react aren't building SPAs. Vue/React can be used the same way as jquery, which is to add enhanced UI functionality that server-side HTML views simply can't offer.

The best example is a multi-select box, or a searchable select box with autocomplete (what W3 calls the combobox pattern https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/combobox/) which in jquery was usually via https://select2.org/

For example, on my company website there's a timezone select box with are 151 options. Asking a user to simply scroll through 100+ to find theirs is annoying vs typing a few characters and hitting enter.

There's many examples of select boxes like that and there really is no static server-side way to solve this problem (I tried hard to think of one)... without creating a multi-page Wizard for what should be a single field on a larger form.

If you're building a SaaS product there are many highly-interactive components that demand JS and there's really no better mainstream solution atm than static-first sites with small "islands" of Vue/React style components (ideally with hydration) where interactivity is required.

People still abuse React/Vue of course, but the trend is 100% moving back to "mostly static" rather than slow SPAs and IMO JS-powered components are not never going away unless browsers start offering these complex components built-in.

I’m a fan of select2 (https://select2.org), it supports loading in data from a foreign source (API)

You could use a Select2() for the records which prevent the massive amount of data being transferred.

Sometimes I still import it for only one thing : select2 that depends on it. Does anyone have an alternative ? I'd love it

The traditional solution was to use ModelAdmin.raw_id_fields, a comma-delimited string of IDs in a text input. Many users found the interaction inelegant, and so ModelAdmin.autocomplete_fields with live search integration with Select2 was added in Django 2.0.

The module django-extensions has a searchable select box widget. There are others using Select2 as well.