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Nice! I have been using maplibre with django and htmx. I should try and put an example up there to share with others.

Hey same! I made https://ratethispad.com and it was a lot of fun to make. (Nobody uses it though...)

I would love to see your project as well.

Would be cool if either the zoom level I need to see reviews would be smaller (more zoomed out), or if there is a list of the reviews that exist on this page.

Currently, as there are probably not many reviews on that site it is near impossible to see an example of a review.

That's because there are basically no reviews. I'm more interested in making stuff than telling people about it.

But you're right, since there are so few reviews, I could definitely decrease the zoom level required to load the reviews.

I'd like to see this. I don't have anything I can share publicly, but I've been making stuff with Django, htmx, SQLAlchemy and plotly and I've found it to be pretty robust

I'm curious about why you use Django together with SQLAlchemy, instead of using the built-in ORM? Or is it just separate projects?

I'm using SQLAlchemy to access external data sources to build reports on. Essentially, I'm using it as a dumb BI connector (mostly to access a Databricks metastore), while my Django ORM manages any app information.

I'm not sure it's the most elegant solution, but it has been pretty functional

Unless you’re writing raw sql, Django does not make it easy to build reporting type queries with the ORM so I’d suggest you’re probably doing the optimal thing here.

Fun fact (and a bit of a brag, apologies), I was the contributor that added the “new” Expressions API with the intent of building a reporting platform on top of it. That platform never eventuated but I’ve still got lots of use out of those APIs.

Thanks, and you are very welcome to post it here. Also, if you or anyone else wants to adapt more of the official examples, create an issue with the link, and I'll add them to the repo :)

would love to see this.

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