Reconciling Django Templates with React Components

At $startupNameHere we decided to write our backend in Django and our frontend in React. The combination is not unusual these days, but if you’ve ever tried it you’ve probably found there’s some friction between page composition with Django’s template system, and React’s component model.

The fundamental issue is that Django wants you to build up your pages using template fragments, and React wants to pull you into its world with JS components as the main building blocks.

I’m here to tell you these don’t necessarily have to conflict, it’s possible to use both without angering the Lilliputians.