Django Template Variables and Javascript

Question

When I render a page using the Django template renderer, I can pass in a dictionary variable containing various values to manipulate them in the page using {{ myVar }}

Answer 1

As of Django 2.1, a new built in template tag has been introduced specifically for this use case: json_script.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/templates/builtins/#json-script

The new tag will safely serialize template values and protects against XSS.

Django docs excerpt:

Safely outputs a Python object as JSON, wrapped in a tag, ready for use with JavaScript.