In 2018, most large web applications use a frontend JavaScript framework such as Angular or React.js. Some of these such as Angular are full MVC frameworks, while others such as React are view replacements.
Since React is currently the most popular choice for frontend development, we will briefly look at how React and Django can work together. Architecturally, React replaces the Template layer rather than views of your Django application, as shown in the following diagram:
How adding React changes the architecture of a traditional Django site. This is one of the many possible ways to integrate React and Django.
You can use the Django Rest framework or a simple service view to pass JSON data to React. Rendering of the template will then happen in the browser at the client side.
React interfaces can be more responsive and dynamic without reloading the page. There are entire web applications that can be built without reloading the page called Single...