Question

In my project I have a lot of Ajax methods, with external client-side scripts (I don’t want to include JavaScript into templates!) and changing URLs is kind of pain for me because I need to change URLs in my Ajax calls manually.

Is there is some way to emulate the behavior of {% url %} templatetag in JavaScript?

For example, print urlpatterns starting with ^ajax and later in scripts replace patterns with their actual values?

That’s what on my mind, and my question is – are there any common practices to do things like that? Maybe some reusable applications? Also I will be happy to read any advices and relevant thoughts you have.

Update 1:
I’m talking about computed URLs, not static ones:

url(r'^ajax/delete/(?P<type>image|audio)/(?P<item_id>\d+)/from/set/(?P<set_id>\d+)/$', 'blog.ajax.remove_item_from_set'),

Answer 1

https://github.com/mlouro/django-js-utils

dutils is a small utility library that aims to provide JavaScript/Django developers with a few utilities that will help the development of RIA on top of a Django Backend.

It currently supports the following features:

• Reverse method for generating Django urls…