Django admin now ships JQuery

http://code.djangoproject.com/changeset/12297

by forsaken • 16 years ago

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kls• 16 years ago

I know it is not the case but this will reflect to most that JQuery is the toolkit of choice for Django.

rbanffy• 16 years ago

It's certainly convenient.

But the Django admin is only an optional application. Your apps may use whatever makes sense for them

tvon• 16 years ago

It's not like it's going to be advertised on the front page of djangoproject.com, I'd imagine devs wouldn't even know about it unless you were reading up on how to customize the admin UI.

alanthonyc• 16 years ago

Well, I'm happily surprised.

alrex021• 16 years ago

The arm finally got bent I guess. This has been brought up quite a few times in the last few years on the Django dev list as I recall. Argument was always around the fact that some commiters didn't want to commit the Django components to any specific JavaScript framework.

orblivion• 16 years ago

That's an interesting point. So what's the counterargument?

forsaken• 16 years ago

Rolling your own is silly and counter productive. Something needed to be chosen, and JQuery is the obvious choice.

Totally pragmatic.

handelaar• 16 years ago

That django-admin is a discrete application. Django itself, and thus your app, remains resolutely uncommitted to one particular JS framework.

ubernostrum• 16 years ago

I summarized my feelings here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=942771

djb_hackernews• 16 years ago

Wasn't Django built so you could drop in jquery and it would pick it up and use it for the admin? So it was optional. I could be making that up.

pistoriusp• 16 years ago

Nope - Django has never had this ability.

dws• 16 years ago

Using jQuery in the (optional) admin tool doesn't commit the framework to jQuery. The view and template mechanisms remain blissfully JavaScript toolkit agnostic. I happen to use jQuery with Django, but appreciate the neutrality.

andybak• 16 years ago

Thank god they finally went for the sensible option. It would have been highly irritating if it was rejected as an unnecessary dependency (which some people were arguing).

timmorgan• 16 years ago

I'm not a django dev -- what library was used before this?

jacobian• 16 years ago

Just plain old JavaScript - no framework. Most of the JavaScript in Django's admin predates JavaScript frameworks entirely (in fact, Simon Willison wrote getElementsBySelector for the admin, which at least partially inspired jQuery and the rest of the selector-based JavaScript APIs).

gsiener• 16 years ago

For anyone getting started with Django, what release will this ship with?

simonw• 16 years ago

1.2.

Django admin now ships JQuery

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