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> what pushed you over the edge?

Using Tailwind without a frontend js framework. I needed a way to create lightweight “components” ala React but on the backend, because otherwise you’re either copy pasting classes like mad or (ab)using tailwind’s @apply.



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

Also, for simpler cases I include partial templates.


How do you create your components in Jinja2? Using the include tag?


I am using {% macro %}


I've been gradually removing all use of Jinja macros from our projects as they make debugging so much more painful. Everything now goes in template globals, which lets you debug them the same as anything else, gives far clearer stack traces and lets you do clever things with caching.




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