[rahimnathwani]

The article mentioned this approach:

"When you google for Django + Vue, most results will be focused on using Django for your backend and Vue for a separate frontend project."

There are times when this makes sense, but there are times when you just need to sprinkle a but of Vue magic onto part of your site, without turning the whole thing into an SPA.

[dtjones]

Yes it's possible to include external libraries into Django templates but I haven't seen a project like this that is maintainable

[rahimnathwani]

I once developed a UI to enable a non-technical user to answer 20 multiple-choice questions about a video. Some of the UX requirements I teased out during the process:

- easy to answer questions whilst watching the video

- quick to navigate to a specific question

- video visible at all times

- short+long summary of each answer visible when answering a specific question

- long description of question visible

- can be operated using mouse or keyboard (on laptop/desktop) or touch (tablet)

The rest of the site was regular Django, with a bit of jQuery here and there. I settled on:

- a regular Django form, with a single field to accept the a json string of the actual answers (the questions might change in future)

- a description of all the questions, descriptions, choices stored in a Django model, and sent to the page as json

- Vue rendering part of the page (the bit with the category selectors, question text, choices, descriptions)

Vue helped me deliver a pretty slick UI and didn't add any technical debt. (Not saying I didn't add any technical debt overall, just that the front-end part didn't contribute.)