Django-cotton-like html tag syntax for django-components

[oliverhaas]

I (and one of my employees) tinkered with adding django-cotton-like syntax to django-components, because I initially loved the django-cotton syntax, but also wanted some of the functionality of django-components that django-cotton lacks.

https://gist.github.com/oliverhaas/49a1683c6a0a4d5bac107dbfd72b283c

I would say that this is more than a POC, but it does not all the reasonable features it in principle could.

There are some upsides to the syntax (nicer formatting and normal html css class autocomplete for example), but I'm not sure anymore if the syntax is really that beneficial, since among other things you'll end up with kind of a hybrid of traditional django templates and JSX-like custom html tags. I thought I'd share, in case anyone is interested in this.

[JuroOravec]

@oliverhaas I've moved this to an issue #794

[oliverhaas]

Just that we're clear on this: I personally am not using this syntax, since I'm not sure if it's better to use the normal one and rather work on improving that (e.g. intellisense and formatters). So it's not really a feature request from my end or anything, that's why I posted it here.

[JuroOravec]

Fair. I do want to implement that, though. django-cotton grew quite fast, so I assume that there are people who prefer that syntax, and I want to make django-components accessible to them too.

[oliverhaas]

Sounds great!
Yeah, I noticed that people really jumped on django-cotton. If the maintainer didn't say he wanted to stay away from python logic, I'm pretty sure at least one of my clients' projects would be using it right now.