[bendavis381]

Doesn't avoid the node dependency, but try https://github.com/airbnb/hypernova

Honestly the node dep isn't so bad. Just think of it as a template render running on another process.

[nsomaru]

On a $5/mo 512mb/20gb DO VPS, a single django application deployed with nginx, gunicorn, postgres and redis on the same box started to OOM me (nothing in application logs!) when doing something like generating a thumbnail.

Deployed some swap and once thumbnail caches are warm we're fine, but, adding node as an additional dependency just seems overkill. python-react seems like a good fit.[0]

[0] https://github.com/markfinger/python-react

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