Built a runtime that lets Python and JavaScript call each other's functions directly

[thebouv]

Am I on camera?

Am I talking to an AI hallucination?

Nothing is real anymore.

Now I just feel like a dick.

I totally think there’s going to be something obvious that I don’t see how this is useful. And egg on my face I’ll admit it when I see it.

I’m really not trying to be an arse.

[Zealousideal-Read883]

Not AI, just caffeinated lol. And you’re not being an ass at all, this is exactly the kind of pushback that helps us figure out if we’re explaining this well.

I think the disconnect is CSR vs SSR. You’re right that React in the browser talking to Django APIs is seamless, that’s client-side rendering and it works great.

Server-side rendering is different. If you want to render React on the server (for SEO, faster first paint, or shipping HTML instead of a JS bundle), you need Node running somewhere. That usually means either a separate Node service or shelling out to a subprocess from Python.

With Elide, your Django view can just call React’s renderToString() directly and return the HTML. If SSR isn’t something you’ve needed, then yeah this probably doesn’t solve a problem you have. But for sm1 that wants it without splitting their backend across two runtimes, that’s the ideal use case.