Django reverse() for JavaScript

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

Answer 1

What's wrong with putting JavaScript in your templates?

You often want to call an initialisation function in your HTML template anyway, so why not pass it an object containing URLs you'll be using?

If you find yourself passing a lot of variable this way, or wanting to use logic in your JavaScript that you do in your HTML templates, then why not render your script through Django's templating engine? Remember, Django templates are not just for HTML documents - often it helps to use templates for plain text, XML, JSON, and yes even JavaScript. Worried about performance? Then cache the result.