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So this is being done just for the sake of not writing JS?

I don't see how this will be in any way better or more maintanalbe. Also it means writing more Django/Jinja templates.

These articles might help:

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.ht...

Apps written in this manner (when properly decomposed) are very maintainable and often markedly simpler than a client-server SPA model. It isn't a popular approach right now, but that's OK. We are all independent thinkers here on HackerNews, right?

Like I mentioned in the article, our main motivation is increased productivity. By avoiding JS for feature development, we write fewer lines of code and ship faster. Better maintainability comes from a smaller codebase and no duplication of business logic between the frontend and backend.

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