[stuartbman]

I can't comment on every use case, but I've recently been using htmx[1] with Django templates to provide sort-of async behaviour. For me it's the best of both worlds; I can specify my template and view as though it's a normal page load, and then use some hx- attributes to make it async.

1. https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2021/how-to-htmx-django/

[NoGravitas]

Yep. I wrote a web app a few years ago that was moderately popular in its niche, using Django and htmx's predecessor, intercooler to add interactivity. I think the big issue with this article is that the author fundamentally wants to write client-side apps, and Django is a server-side framework, so it's not really meeting his needs.

The async issue is valid — I have wanted to use server-sent events with intercooler/htmx — but the answer seems to be just to use Django Channels, or be patient and wait until the async features are actually finished.