django-components becomes Citry: fully typed, server-side events, editor support, and more

Hi everyone! New major version of django-components is out 🎉 The project has been renamed to Citry, and it:

• Works now with Django, FastAPI, or any other web server
• Directly integrates with AlpineJS and makes it easy to pass data from Python to Alpine
• Has integrated server-side event handling and server-side state inspired by livecomponents
• Now has the same quality-of-life features as Vue or React - type-checking, linting, editor integration (hints, autocomplete, reference lookup) - both for Python and Alpine expressions

New website: https://citry.dev
New github: https://github.com/citry-dev/citry
VSCode ext: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=citry-dev.citry

To get a feel for the new version, look through:

• Landing page - https://citry.dev
• Getting started pages - https://citry.dev/getting-started/installation/
• Live coding video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3nPqvDdNB0
• Live playground - https://citry.dev/playground/
• Benchmarks - https://citry.dev/about/benchmarks/

The new Citry library supersedes django-components.

Citry has its own syntax that's similar to Vue, but remains equal with Django's. For gradual migration / backwards compatibility, there is citry-django, which allows to mix the Django and Citry syntaxes.

Overall, I recommend migrating from django-components to Citry, that will keep 90% of the code the same, but will also:

• catch errors in templates and Alpine expressions
• reduce boilerplate
• and lots more.

Suggested next steps:

• Have a look through the links above when you have the time
• Let's schedule a call where I would show you how it works
• Then we can discuss whether to proceed with the migration and how

I'm happy to help with the migration and onboarding.