Odoo 18.0 OWL (Odoo Web Library)

13/09/2025 14 min

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Episode Synopsis

This episode describes OWL, a lightweight web framework developed by Odoo for creating structured, dynamic, and maintainable applications. It integrates modern concepts from React and Vue, such as class-based components with hooks, a fine-grained reactivity system, and asynchronous rendering, all written in TypeScript. The framework uses ES6 classes and XML templates for component definition and features a virtual DOM. Comprehensive documentation is available, covering topics from tutorials for new users to detailed reference materials on components, event handling, reactivity, and more, alongside information on installation and developer tools.