Using a unicorn view as a view

[Joetib]

I find myself writing duplicate views. A Django regular view that simply serves an html which does nothing but load a unicorn view and then the unicorn view itself.

I was wondering if it was possible to present the unicorn view directly to the user.

Also I was wondering if unicorn will have an equivalent of some client side routing strategy

[adamghill]

I just attached a draft PR with how I think rendering a component view directly might work.

Something like:

from example.unicorn.components.text_inputs import TextInputsView

urlpatterns = [
    path("direct-view", TextInputsView.as_view(), name="direct-view",),
]

How does that look to you?

I still need to figure out how the csrf token and javascript portion would get included on the page. I think that the component would extend/include a template with {% csrf_token %} and {% unicorn_scripts %}? Does that seem like a reasonable requirement?

[Joetib]

Yeah extending seems great to me.