The new way of building Django apps!

The new way of building Django apps!

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Django
Published
August 12, 2025
Last Updated
Last updated August 11, 2025
Based on Carlton Gibon’s DjangoCon Europe 2023 talk and other references that I have seen over the last year or two, I’ve been meaning to try out this new stack. Here’s how it goes:
 
Use Django, of course, along with:
  1. neapolitan
    Github
    neapolitan
    Owner
    carltongibson
    Updated
    Aug 9, 2025
  1. htmx
    Github
    htmx
    Owner
    bigskysoftware
    Updated
    Aug 11, 2025
  1. tailwindcss
    Github
    tailwindcss
    Owner
    tailwindlabs
    Updated
    Aug 11, 2025
 
Another potential candidate that I’ve heard about is AlpineJS. I’ve heard it blends in nicely with htmx where you let htmx do some of the reactivity and then AlpineJS do the heavy lifting. Haven’t tried it out yet but I will definitely be using this for my next project!