consoling out django context in console

Question

why am I getting output in console as {{request.num}} without the actual number?

This is my code:

def test(request):
    number = 4

    context = {"num": number}

javascript

var number = "{{request.num}}";
console.log(number)

Answer 1

What worked for me is when I explicitly created the exact js variable inside a script tag in the template and consoled it out from the external js file, seems to work! Don't exactly know why that's happening but is.