[inanothertime]

> They converted it from React to HTMX, cutting their codebase by almost 70% while significantly improving its capabilities.

Happy user of https://reflex.dev framework here.

I was tired of writing backend APIs with the only purpose that they get consumed by the same app's frontend (typically React). Leading to boilerplate code both backend side (provide APIs) and frontend side (consume APIs: fetch, cache, propagate, etc.).

Now I am running 3 different apps in productions for which I no longer write APIs. I only define states and state updates in Python. The frontend code is written in Python, too, and auto-transpiled into a React app. The latter keeping its states and views automagically in sync with the backend. I am only 6 months into Reflex so far, but so far it's been mostly a joy. Of course you've got to learn a few but important details such as state dependencies and proper state caching, but the upsides of Reflex are a big win for my team and me. We write less code and ship faster.

[ggregoire]

> I was tired of writing backend APIs with the only purpose that they get consumed by the same app's frontend

PostgREST is great for this: https://postgrest.org

I run 6 React apps in prod, which used to consume APIs written with Falcon, Django and FastAPI. Since 2 years ago, they all consume APIs from PostgREST. I define SQL views for the tables I want to expose, and optionally a bunch of SQL grants and SQL policies on the tables if I have different roles/permissions in the app, and PostgREST automatically transforms the views into endpoints, adds all the CRUD + UPSERT capabilities, handles the authorization, filtering, grouping, ordering, insert returning, pagination, and so on.

[gdulli]

I checked this out because it sounded cool and I was not expecting to see a landing page about AI and "Contact sales" for pricing info if you don't want your work to be data-mined. 2025, man. Sigh.