[Django]-Is it possible to use javascript to get data from django models db?

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In your view:

from django.core import serializers
json_serializer = serializers.get_serializer("json")()
companies = json_serializer.serialize(Company.objects.all().order_by('id')[:5], ensure_ascii=False)

In template:

var companies = '{{ companies|escapejs }}';

This is only for getting your data models into JS. For manipulating them, you should create some views that will get called from JS (by AJAX). They should probably return JSON. Check out
https://dev.to/brian101co/how-to-return-a-json-response-in-django-gen or https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/tutorial/2016/07/27/how-to-return-json-encoded-response.html on how to simply return only JSON from a view.

👤frnhr

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You must serialize your companies model data to json, so javascript will be able to read it.

So you’ll need to have two model variables, companies (the one you have right now) and companies_json which will hold the serialized data.

from django.core import serializers
companies_json = serializers.serialize("json", Company.objects.all())

I haven’t tested this.

👤Jonas Geiregat

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