Django and AngularJS are two powerful tools for developing web applications. Django is a high-level Python web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design, while AngularJS is a structural framework for dynamic web apps allowing you to extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly.
To use Django with AngularJS, you need to integrate both these frameworks into your application. Here’s a simple procedure of how you can do it:
1. Set up Django: Start by setting up your Django project and application. Django can be installed using pip: `pip install Django`. After the installation, you can start a new Django project by running: `django-admin startproject myproject`. To create a Django application under your project, navigate to the project directory: `cd myproject`, and run: `django-admin startapp myapp`.
1. Set up AngularJS: Now you need to setup AngularJS. You can use a CDN to include AngularJS into your project or you can download and host it on your server. To use a CDN, in your HTML file you can include: ``.
1. Integrate Django and AngularJS: Both Django and AngularJS use double curly braces `{}` for variable substitution in templates, you need to change this in one of the frameworks to avoid clashes. This can be done in AngularJS by setting another symbol for interpolation. Include this into your AngularJS controller: `$interpolateProvider.startSymbol(‘{[{‘).endSymbol(‘}]}’);`.
1. Create Django Views: In your Django app create a view function that will load your HTML page where AngularJS is included. It can be something like this in your `views.py`:
```
from django.shortcuts import render
def index(request):
return render(request, ‘index.html’)
```
5. Hook up Django URLs: Your Django app now needs to know when to serve this view. This is done in `urls.py` file of the Django app:
```python
from django.urls import path
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
path(“”, views.index, name=“index”)
]
```
1. APIs and Django Rest Framework: For dynamic data exchange between Django and Angular, DRF is used. This allows Django to serve data in a JSON format that can be easily consumed by AngularJS. Install it using pip: `pip install djangorestframework`.
1. Creation of Model and Serializer: After this setup, models are created in Django to represent the data needed. Then, the serializers.py file is created in which serializers for the model are defined. This will convert model data into JSON format.
1. Ajax Calls Using AngularJS: AngularJS can now serve templates and make Ajax calls to Django endpoints for dynamic data. By using the $http service in AngularJS, you can make GET, POST, DELETE, etc. requests.
References:
- [Django Documentation](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/)
- [AngularJS Documentation](https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/introduction)
- [Django Rest Framework](https://www.django-rest-framework.org/)
