LilyFoote/django-rusty-templates

Django Rusty Templates

Django Rusty Templates is an experimental reimplementation of Django's templating language in Rust.

Goals

• 100% compatibility of rendered output.
• Error reporting that is at least as useful as Django's errors.
• Improved performance over Django's pure Python implementation.

Installation

Django Rusty Templates is not yet ready for full release, so it is not available on PyPI yet. Instead it can be installed from github or from a local clone:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/LilyFoote/django-rusty-templates.git

$ git clone git@github.com:LilyFoote/django-rusty-templates.git
$ pip install ./django-rusty-templates

You will need a rust compiler installed (https://rustup.rs/).

Usage

Add an entry to your TEMPLATES setting with "BACKEND" set to "django_rusty_templates.RustyTemplates":

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        "BACKEND": "django_rusty_templates.RustyTemplates",
        ... # Other configuration options
    },
]

Contributing

Django Rusty Templates is open to contributions. These can come in many forms:

• Implementing missing features, such as filters and tags built into Django.
• Reporting bugs where Django Rusty Templates gives the wrong result.
• Adding new test cases to ensure Django Rusty Templates behaves the same as Django.
• Adding benchmarks to track performance.
• Refactoring for readability or performance.