Udemy – Django & HTMX – Building Hypermedia Web Applications!

Django is the most popular Python web framework, and an up-and-coming paradigm is to build Hypermedia applications. These remove the complexity and bloat of JavaScript frameworks, providing a simpler and more stable model for building web apps.

In this course, we’ll look at HTMX from the ground up, before eventually building a more complex chat-room application that uses django-channels to handle WebSocket functionality, and will integrate this with tools like Redis and the HTMX WebSocket plugin. We’ll look at deploying this app to the Render cloud platform, and will look at at handling file uploads to cloud storage (Amazon S3) using Django & HTMX.

Throughout the course, we will look at the following concepts, among others:

• Fundamental HTMX attributes – hx-get, hx-trigger, hx-target, etc
• Hypermedia concepts – HTML over the wire, locality of behavior, AJAX requests
• Building CRUD applications with HTMX and Django
• HTMX integration with Sweetalert2 for confirmations
• HTMX integration with GSAP for animations
• HTMX integration with Alpine.js for interactive, sleek webpages
• File uploads with HTMX and Amazon S3
• HTMX WebSocket plugin
• django-channels & Redis integration
• Broadcasting messages to chat rooms with Channel Layers
• Integrating HTMX with Django core features – Models, Forms, Views, Templates
• Deploying Django apps to the Render cloud platform
• HTMX Polling functionality
• Implementing common HTMX patterns such as Active Search
• Useful Django packages – django-htmx, django-template-partials, Whitenoise
• Basic TailwindCSS and DaisyUI styling

• Python web-developers who want to build apps with HTMX/hypermedia tools
• Django developers looking to build WebSocket/chat functionality from the ground up