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Re: Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework

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Post by marajason629 »

brokegrammer wrote: post #20
graemep wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In reality, people ended up having to deal with weird bugs because asynchronous Python isn't the most ergonomic That is an understatement. I loathe working with async Python. > For example, people could build an API that will contact OpenAI before returning a response. That's where FastAPI truly shined because of native asynchronous views which provides better performance over Flask's async implementation. TO be fa…

> TO be fair there are lots of other things that require a response from an API before responding to the request and therefore async reduces resource usage over threads or multi-process. Agreed. However, these are rare and many people have been abusing asynchronous views instead of delegating the task to a background worker when multiple external requests are required. Showing a spinner while polling a synchronous vi…

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Re: Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework

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Post by nop_slide »

odie5533 wrote: post #15
nop_slide wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After using both Flask and FastAPI extensively I can attest that Flask is the better technology. Flask is extremely stable and has solid organization around them via Pallets. This is a great benefit as they are keeping the ecosystem moving forward and stable. https://palletsprojects.com/ Versus FastAPI which is lead by a single maintainer which you can search back on HN about opinions on how he's led things. Flask al…

Flask is missing... pydantic, dependency injection, openapi, swagger, real async.

https://github.com/pallets-eco/flask-pydantic

https://luolingchun.github.io/flask-openapi3/v4.x/

> dependency injection

While nice I never found this to be a critical deciding factor of using a technology.

> real async

If you really want it there is Quart which is real async

https://github.com/pallets/quart

I'm not a huge async fan in python anymore so not it's not a huge issue for me. But there are definitely options for Flask if you want to use async.

Re: Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework

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Post by hunvreus »

Some interesting concepts:

- Components: https://hyperflask.dev/guides/components/ - Bundling view and controller in the same file: https://hyperflask.dev/guides/interactive-apps/

I think these may be footguns though. Components for example are just a regular macros under the hood. Why not use macros then?

I'm also curious about the choice of Flask. I started with a similar approach for /dev/push [1], but ended up moving to FastAPI + Jinja2 + Alpine.js + HTMX once I figured out FastAPI wasn't just for APIs. I wanted proper async support. I love Flask, but don't you find it limiting?

[1]: https://github.com/hunvreus/devpush

Re: Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework

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Post by langitbiru »

rapfaria wrote: post #9
CiTyBear wrote: post #4

Curious choice of backend python. Indeed Flask is a famous python framework but it seems it has been completely overshadowed by FastAPI. I would suggest "HyperFastAPI"

Is FastAPI still (micro)managed by one person?

He got funding. So, I guess he can hire some people to help him.

https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-fastapi-l...

Re: Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework

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Post by drunx »

emixam wrote: post #17

Hello, author of hyperflask here. I'm happy to finally announce this project as I've been working on it for quite some time. I made an announcement post here: https://hyperflask.dev/blog/2025/10/14/launch-annoncement/ I love to hear feedback!

As a big fan of python and htmx... I'm loving it!

Would check it out asap!

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