Calling Django `reverse` in client-side Javascript

Question

I\'m using Django on Appengine. I\'m using the django reverse() function everywhere, keeping everything as DRY as possible.

However, I\'m having trouble

Answer 1

Having just struggled with this, I came up with a slightly different solution.

In my case, I wanted an external JS script to invoke an AJAX call on a button click (after doing some other processing).

In the HTML, I used an HTML-5 custom attribute thus

Then, in the javascript, simply did

$.post($("#test-button").attr("data-ajax-target"), ... );

Which meant Django's template system did all the reverse() logic for me.