Question

As far as I know, for a new request coming from a webapp, you need to reload the page to process and respond to that request.

For example, if you want to show a comment on a post, you need to reload the page, process the comment, and then show it. What I want, however, is I want to be able to add comments (something like facebook, where the comment gets added and shown without having to reload the whole page, for example) without having to reload the web-page. Is it possible to do with only Django and Python with no Javascript/AJAX knowledge?

I have heard it’s possible with AJAX (I don’t know how), but I was wondering if it was possible to do with Django.

Thanks,

Answer 1

You want to do that with out any client side code (javascript and ajax are just examples) and with out reloading your page (or at least part of it)?

If that is your question, then the answer unfortunately is you can’t. You need to either have client side code or reload your page.

Think about it, once the client get’s the page it will not change unless

• The client requests the same page from the server and the server returns and updated one
• the page has some client side code (eg: javascript) that updates the page.