Django is a great tool for creating powerful database-driven web applications quickly. The ORM, form processing, the admin interface, and wealth of community applications make Django the right tool for a number of situations.

One thing that Django doesn’t do well is make it terribly easy to create highly-interactive, dynamic interfaces. There are solutions that people are working on. This talk will be about using Django with Backbone.js to help create these interfaces. Backbone.js is a Javascript framework that, in many ways, sees the world in the same way as Django. These two tools can complement each other nicely.

Topics:

• Similarities and differences in how the two frameworks see the world
• Creating REST interfaces with Django REST Framework
• Tools to ease the interface between Django and Backbone
• Templating strategies
• Shortcomings and implications on accessibility