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Okay, welcome to the fight on their room where we will explain some stuff about jungle and

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HTML and out to discuss with LLM by Juren, okay, let's go.

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Okay, yeah, hi there, welcome to my talk, skips the overhead line web development with

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Django, about me, I'm Jorn Vassava freelance software developer from this is off, I have some

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jump speaking pattern podcasts and yeah, I created this Django resume package, I'll use as an example

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throughout this talk, okay, what do you expect from this talk? At first, don't try to read all the

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quotes, I have some in there because I couldn't resist, but the slides of the talk are in the

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detail page of the talk, so can read them later, if it's too fast. And at first, there's three parts,

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the first part is what's up with modern web development, do we really need an SPA for everything,

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single page application or are there other ways? Then the second part is about how to build interactive

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websites without all this blood and in a third part, I'll try to do a live demo,

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yeah, we'll see how that works, okay, yeah modern web development, there's a lot,

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there's a front end, a back end web frameworks on front end side, on the back end side, and then there's

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some communication over rest API, which are not really restful, but more traditional kind

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server, Jason, the API is tightly coupled, and then we have another different framework,

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probably for CSS stuff, and build pipelines on its front end for TypeScript to JavaScript and

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back end, and yeah, it's complicated stuff, and if you read some book on design patterns or

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software architecture, probably there's a place for every pattern, probably multiple places where you

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can find even dependency injections or stuff like that, which is kind of nice, but also

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can get a little bit difficult, but yeah, we maybe we didn't choose to do that because it's

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easy, we wanted to go to the moon, the little website, which is difficult, and yeah, we do it on purpose,

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but maybe there are things we didn't expect, and for example there's also the people

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who don't want to write JavaScript, and then there are people who don't want to write

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Python, and nobody wants to write HTML and CSS, and sooner or later you get a front end

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back end split between the developers, and then those paths have to communicate, which is kind

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of yeah, they don't want to do it maybe, or can't, in some projects we used Tailwind for CSS stuff,

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and from that needed to use the Python backend web server also, and it was months into the

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project that we found out during a paper programming session, that yeah, they didn't configure

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their virtual ends differently, and the tailwind CSS process has to run at run over all the virtual

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ends stuff, and gigabytes of dependencies, and it took 40 seconds for changing some classes

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in HTML to show the feedback, which will feedback of changing the layout, which was kind of

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made them with angry, yeah, but also, paper programming, many institutions don't do it,

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because they think it's expensive, and paper programming between front and the backend people,

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oh, that's almost unavoidable expensive, but yeah, so they have to live with some minor inefficiencies,

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sometimes, yeah, making our life even harder, okay, so it's probably not easy, why are we doing that?

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Why are we buying into all this complexity, and I think the reason is because of the non-functional

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requirements, we want smooth user experience, appealing visuals, we now building websites is

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complex and expensive, so we want to be able to show the internet stakeholder's paying for

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that some wow effect, so it shouldn't, at all costs, it shouldn't look like a website, so it has to

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be something really premium, and then there's also the developer experience, we shortly talked

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about it, there are just, if you have a problem like that, you can probably do much,

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because for example, if you have a software development department, which is used to climb stuff,

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and if you talk to them, yeah, maybe it's time to write some HTML and CSS, they will kind of push back,

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and maybe you have to persuade them in another way, like telling them, oh, that's this

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shiny new typescript language, which is kind of similar to Java, and you don't have to touch

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HTML and CSS, and you have only, you can use your standard IDE and just compile for a different

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build target, right, and yeah, then you might have changed your legacy enterprise development department

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to cutting at WebDef team and profit, so, but if you don't have those requirements, maybe you

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can do something much simpler, like choosing some of those old boring back-and-back frameworks,

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like Django, which is community government, no major drama expected there, it works, you can

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upgrade it in last years, I didn't hit any major rock blocks update in Django and spend your

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innovation tokens elsewhere, which is kind of great, and Django, in the time it was founded,

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there was not really a front-end back-and-split, and yeah, then there was for a long time, people wrote

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back-and-a-p-i-s using Django rest framework or something like that, and then building front-end

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on top of it using single-page application, next year's React, UGS, something like that, but now

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in the set, Django doesn't have really have a front-end story, but now it's changing again,

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and maybe you can do a lot of front-end stuff in Django again, and Django kind of is the front-end framework

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and why not use it as a smart, and this is because there have been, for example,

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development in CS-Esland, CS-Es is much better now than it was, you probably don't have to use

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a big CS framework to just make responsive websites, pre-processors are probably no longer essential

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because you can use custom properties, and yeah, you have quantitative queries, grid,

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flexbox, all working well, and maybe you can even use CS-Es to your advantage, like using

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releases as electors and the cascade, and there are maybe your friends, if you don't have to use

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utility for HTML components and copy them, because you can compose your sites layout,

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maybe using layout primitives, and CS-Es electors, there's a book I like, I mentioned, it's called

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Every Layout where this approach is described in more detail, it's just I want to show it a little

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bit so you can check it out, and maybe the most important part is HTML's, so HTML's, I don't know,

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how many people are knowing what HTML's is, okay, most of it, maybe I don't have to talk

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about that, it's the next evolution of the HTML Pokemon, it's kind of, in old HTML,

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you can only two elements can do HTTP requests, the anchor tag and the form tag, and when HTTP

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response is coming back from the server, the whole DOM has to be replaced, and the DOM has to be re-rendered,

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and it's kind of tags about a second, and you have a flash of white in which we can, so you

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will notice, it makes multi-page websites feel like they usually do, and for single-page apps,

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it's different because they only have to update parts of the websites that have changed, and this

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is much faster, the latency, fetching JSON from a backend API versus fetching HTML is basically

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the same, there's no difference, but with HTML's possibility to just fetch small snippets from the

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backend, and then swap them into the DOM, and it's feels like an SPA, and another advantage is that

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it's really restful, it's for HTML's, the stack is called whole hypermedia, and whatever you'd like,

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you don't have a tight coupling between front and the backend, and you can just change your backend,

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don't modify your front end, it's also great, yeah, and HTML's is not the only game in town,

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there are different approaches for Lara, there's like Maya, for Rails, there's hotwire,

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and for Elixir Phoenix, there's like you, and for Django, people usually use HTML's, which is kind

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of a little bit special, it's different, but I like it, because it's more low level, you can do

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a little bit more things, yeah, but it's not as tightly integrated, yeah.

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Okay, so let's have a look at Django resume, as freelancer sometimes, you have to update your CV,

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and, oh, procrastinate, by building CV management app, and for me the choice was kind of obvious,

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and, yeah, I looked at existing solutions, but they are all were implemented in things like

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next jazz, and I thought, I'm doing Django all the time, maybe I can pull it off just using Django,

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how hard can it be, and, yeah, there are some additional functional requirements

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when you write something like a CV management app, and the most important is that it probably should

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be easy to customize it, because different people have different needs, so academics have maybe

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list of publications, designers have pictures, images, and portfolios stuff, and, yeah, that's

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different for every profession and so, and I don't know every profession, so, I can do it by myself,

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I just provide an application architecture, so people can build stuff they need for themselves,

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and, yeah, the data for each plugin is stored in a central JSON field, and under the name of the

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plugin, so each plugin has its own namespace, and, yeah, you don't have to write, if you want to

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write a new plugin, you don't have to write any Django bottle, and you don't have to do any

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migrations, because, yeah, it's all stored in the JSON field, but you still have to specify

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somehow the schema of your data, and also do validation, and you can write just the Django form for

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that, because, yeah, they do validation, and you can specify the schema, and also you have to

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make sure that the clean data attribute of your Django form is JSON serializable, but if you

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write a form that does that, then, yeah, most of the programming part of your plugin is already done,

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you need two things, additionally, one Django template to render the plugin data to HTML,

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to show your plugin, and one Django template to render a edit interface for your plugin data.

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Yeah, so, and then there's some edge cases like, if you have lists of stuff, if you add a tag

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to something, then you probably don't want to send all the data to your backend, and then,

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because it's not here, if you get rendered HTML back, then you have to click on edit again,

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if you want to remove the tag, so it's better to manage the state of those lists in the front end,

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and then if you've finished editing just send all the data to the backend, and I use welcome

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comments for that. There's a second one called editable form, which is kind of a shortcut for

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not having to style forms, because this could also be hard, you can just reuse your plugin

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data to HTML template, and sprinkle in some content editable attributes, and then have a form

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from HTML form rendered from your Django form, which is just hidden, and then have a web component,

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which connects the content editable text to the input fields of this form, and then subit the form

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just using HTML. Yeah, you could also use an SPA for that, and it would probably make sense

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if your UI requirements are really complex, but web components have some advantages like

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you don't have to download a big bundle, they are standard space, so you don't come back into

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your project a few months or years later, and you have to update everything, and it doesn't work anymore,

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so that won't happen using the components. But web components are also a little bit more complicated,

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because you have to write some more boilerplate, and it's a little bit more complicated, but

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you can, what I did was I just wrote the functionality in spaghetti JavaScript, and then pasted

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this JavaScript into an LNM, and said, oh, maybe you can generate a clean web component out of this,

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and write some unit tests in it, plot 3.5, so net it, and it looked quite good, and so I didn't

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have to remember all this lifecycle hook stuff in web components, because LNM did it for me.

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Yeah, then you can use also LNM's for structured JSON generation, if you have an example of

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how your data should look like, then you can use this as an example, and just say, yeah,

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use a different theme, different contents, and it will do that works pretty well, but it's

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also kind of boring, but what's really interesting is you can maybe

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plug-in development, even easier, by providing the existing plastic plugins as future learning

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contexts to an LNM, and then provide a new prompt for an plugin, and here's some examples,

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here's a new prompt, just write the plugin, and yeah, this kind of works, it's experimental,

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it's not really stable, but that it's even possible, it's kind of fascinating, so yeah,

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and now I want to show you a little demo, a little overview of how this all looks like, and then

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web components, how they behave, and the interactivity, and also maybe we can ask an LNM to write

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a plugin for us, let's see, do I have internet here? Okay, just take my phone, yeah, so this is

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this one, this is general resume, and there's a cover, let us think, if you click edit,

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then you can just inline edit the content, so for example, this stuff, I can just add some things,

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and this now doesn't look like a normal website, it just updates instantly, and yeah,

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you don't have this page reloading going on, in the main part of this, this third partly package

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is the CV, looks like this, and also if you here, maybe we check some more complicated

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element like a new timeline entry, so I can hear add some badges like Python or type script,

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and remove some other stuff, and submit it, and it's just there,

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there are error messages, if I break something like break this URL, then I should get an instant

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error message, but it's not generated in the front end, it's coming from the back end, so

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yeah, and if I want to delete it, it's also just gone, okay, that's how the edit stuff works here,

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and yeah, this is all HTML and general, okay, let's try to add a plugin, I have this profile,

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this is a house plan, but this far or correctal, let's see, yeah, this one, and maybe she needs

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a plugin to break about the height of a very permanent, because that's something to be brought

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off, apparently, okay, so I need a prompt, I won't write it, okay, and if I click general code from

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then it will try to to create some, I use a small model, a cloud 3.5 iq, which should be enough

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for this small task, so now the element m is generating code, and yeah, here is now the plugin data,

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you can see it's later here in this field, and then there's a source code for the module

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which is basically the form, and then template to render plugin data to HTML, and then template

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for edit the plugin data, okay, now the element m is done, and yeah, it brought some code, I don't know,

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in some templates, looks good, looks good to me, I just have to start the development server

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because experimental, but if I reload so now I now I have a preview of this plugin, and it even

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then has a small world for the location, which is kind of great, and I can edit it, say,

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called Hese, maybe, so and now if I, yeah, this is now the plugin data in the JSON field,

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it's kind of neat, and also I wrote in the prompt that the pyramid has to be at least 50 meters,

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so let's see if the error message works out correct, that's that it's 20 meters, oh, it also works,

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yeah, so, no, didn't change it, yeah, there's somewhere in error, I don't know, okay, yeah,

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it's not perfect, sometimes it works, let's see, if I take the working exam now the people

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is not working, okay, yeah, but now if I want to use it on the CD page, I can just say it here,

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and then it should be available in here on edit, I broke it, no, but you get the idea,

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okay, I probably need to restart the server, okay, now it's here, yeah, okay, and here's also

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now the error message should show up correctly, yeah, okay, yeah, so, okay, thanks for your attention

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questions, yes, do you have some question, oh yeah, just one, just one, up to,

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just a question regarding the resume, there is a JSON scheme for resumes,

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is it accidental that you haven't used it, or is it because you want to extend it in some way,

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there's a JSON scheme for what for resumes, I didn't, didn't know it existed so, yeah,

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nice to know about this, I have a look at that, yeah, another question,

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hello, hi there, thanks for the very interesting talk, a question I have, I was also working on

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a bit of a Django project using HTML and one of the things that we're running into is you get

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like these very, a lot of very small snippets of a Django template files and they do like one little thing

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and that's I think that tends to happen because you're using HTML, but how can we

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be more in control of that and be more in, you know, don't lose ourselves in the, in the

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the revenue of templates, yeah, one of the approaches would be to use cotton,

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gipses, Django template parses, package, where you can just define your parses in line in

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your Django template and don't have to use different files, Django template parses is probably

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the name of the package, yeah, and yeah, in this case I saved the snippets in the database,

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so this is also an option, but I can't recommend it, it's probably unsaved, so yeah,

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thank you, so if we have no other question we can go, thank you so much,

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yeah, thank you