FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python

1. These folks on such a project will otherwise need to deal with templates with Python in them. Inside out or outside in, there’s some complexity.

Linted, formatted, optionally typed Python is likely going to be more maintainable than html templates in the long run and is one of the easier langs to pick up. css/js can be linked separately.

I don’t see any limitations that would prevent one from using a template on a new page.

I recently looked into these kind of html builder libs, pioneered by dominate. “htpy” was the only one where I was impressed with the source code.

I was talking with my cofounder today about how we'd likely need to become a multilingual platform once we eventually take on more than backend applications and I'm glad to see projects like this. They give me hope that we won't have to make that jump.

I'm really excited to give this a try seeing as this should just run on our cloud with minimal to no changes given the premise.

I know of one or two other projects like this in the ecosystem, but this approach seems the most promising so far.

Also I'm not sure when Jeremy finds time to sleep given all the other exciting work from Answer.AI. and his various courses :P

I recently implemented deepspeed + qlora in a finetuning library and that was also entirely based on the fsdp implementation him and his various associates wrote.

So he really is just making great contributions all over the place.

Oh my goodness. I like to keep things boring where possible and swore I would never stray from Django + HTMX + Django Ninja, but I am exceedingly tempted to use this in an upcoming project. Lovely architectural choices - bravo!

I'm looking at the very first example, and I'm a little confused. The function `home()` displays a list of messages, but they aren't passed into `home()`. Instead, `messages` is basically a global variable, and some other functions can append messages to it. Then I went looking at some more examples, and I see this pattern repeated. Is this how you're supposed to build webapps with this package? How does it isolate the list of messages for different users?

It's a bit of a tangent, but do you have any go-to resources for learning how to use Django-ninja with HTMX? I haven't really put a lot of time into it, but HTMX seemed difficult to use with JSON APIs on first attempt.

I'm only really familiar with Django and DRF, but if love to switch at some point.