web: Remove server-side template rendering
mhthies opened this issue · comments
The web widgets use client-side JavaScript for dynamically changing the UI from received object state. Some of them already generate most of the HTML layout of the widget in JavaScript as well, e.g. by using a third-party JS library (like Iro or Chart.js). The other widgets use server-side template rendering with Jinja2 to generate the required HTML elements. However, these HTML templates are all quite simple, so we could reduce complexity by removing the template rendering and let all widgets' JavaScript code generate the HTML elements.
We can keep the base.htm template for rendering the overall web page with placeholders for each widget and an embedded JSON structure containing the specification of the individual widgets or move to a full single-page application, where the specification of the page layout and widget configurations is fetched as JSON from an API endpoint and all HTML rendering is done in client-side JavaScript.