select2 VS framework

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.

In April of 2021, version 1.0 of FEAST Framework was released. One year ago, version 2.0 of FEAST Framework was released. Today, I am happy to announce the release of version 3.0 of FEAST Framework.

I would like to submit https://github.com/feastframework/framework to this. It's a small framework I wrote and what I think sets it apart is it has 100% code coverage with PHPUnit and has 100% static type analysis with psalm.

FEAST Framework. Go figure.

This isn't quiiiite the same as your scenario, but in December the (not yet at that time) version of FEAST Framework didn't have a single unit test outside of one simple class (The Date class). By March, it had 100% coverage.

You can find it here: FEAST Framework

I have minor issues with the PSR-11 interface due to it not being capable of strong typing on the variables... And yet my framework (https://github.com/feastframework/framework) uses it. It's nice to have that layer of flexibility. Admittedly, I pissed a few people off by just throwing the interface in my codebase but whatevs 😂

This book actually had a very large hand in the development of my PHP Framework FEAST and definitely is one of the books that inspired my goal (which was achieved) of 100% code coverage.