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emixam | 4 months ago

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!

discuss

recursivedoubts|4 months ago

yo, i'm the htmx guy

this looks awesome!

mikestorrent|4 months ago

Love your work. I wanted what it does in like 2007... always felt like extending HTML more was the way it should have gone, instead of the JS hell we spent over a decade in instead. Your work makes me feel like I'm not an idiot, and that my ideas were somewhat valid!

emixam|4 months ago

Thank you so much ! Great work with htmx, I'm a fan. This project is the culmination of a lot of concepts I like from many different stacks coming together.

rodolphoarruda|4 months ago

I use it in all my projects. Thank you. The Hypermedia book is incredibly good and "nostalgic" to me, a child of the web 1.0.

hunvreus|4 months ago

Didn't recognize you without the horse picture.

elevation|4 months ago

A colleague built an internal app on flask/htmx/sqlalchemy and had excellent results but couldn't get approval to open source it. Excited to see your work!

librasteve|4 months ago

great to see a new framework embrace HTMX ... HTMX is inspiring many new green shoots as alternatives to JS & React

I am sure that many will like the blend of Python and Flask - and with server side HTMX I know that components are a key aspect

plus you website doesn't hurt my eyes like FastHTML

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here's my comparison to https://harcstack.org

  Language
    Python vs. Raku
  Web framework
    Flask vs. Cro
  ORM
    ?? vs. Red
  Components
    both
  HTML
    template vs. functional
  CSS
    DaisyUI/Tailwind/Bootstrap vs. Pico

So, I think you have a much wider audience with a very popular set of options - for comparison HARC stack makes more "out there" choices which I hope will appeal to the small group of folks who want to try a new way to go - like the idea of functional code for HTML (think elmlang on the server side) and are a bit allergic to Tailwind denormalization.

adastra22|4 months ago

Why sqlorm and not sqlalchemy? I've been out of the Python dev space for a long time (maybe it shows), but I thought everyone used SQLAlchemy, and I never heard off sqlorm.

emixam|4 months ago

sqlorm is a new orm developed as part of hyperflask.

I use sqlalchemy daily, it's an amazing library, but I wanted something more lightweight and straightforward for this project. I find the unit of work pattern cumbersome

whalesalad|4 months ago

I loathe sqlalchemy

nodesocket|4 months ago

This looks awesome. I’m building an app in pure Flask using Tailwind + DaisyUI + Bootstrap Icons which looks to be the exact stack you’ve gone with. Though admittedly I am just writing raw JavaScript without a JS framework.

alex_suzuki|4 months ago

I‘m doing this as well, and I really like the simplicity and „no build steps“ approach.

Everything is rendered server-side, with sprinkles of modern JS where needed or useful, powered by some JSON-serving routes in the same flask app. A CSS framework on top to make it look good.

Basically more or less how we built web apps 15 years ago. :-)

czhu12|4 months ago

I’ve been looking for something like this but backend agnostic (library rather than a framework) because we’re already about a million lines deep into a Django project. Anyway to lift this up into something that I can just mount into a Django app?

emixam|4 months ago

Some of the sub-projects of hyperflask can be re-used elsewhere but most of it is Flask specific.

Notable sub-projects that could be used with Django:

- https://github.com/hyperflask/jinja-super-macros

- https://github.com/hyperflask/jinjapy

drunx|4 months ago

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

Would check it out asap!

vb-8448|4 months ago

just out of curiosity: did you consider unpoly.js or alpine-ajax instead of htmx? If yes, why did you choose htmx instead of others?

emixam|4 months ago

I knew of unpoly but didn't know about alpine-ajax. My choice was set on htmx since the beginning. I feel it's a more mature solution with more flexibility.

reality_inspctr|4 months ago

excited to try out. flask <> coding agents work really well together.

fithisux|4 months ago

Is this a one man effort?

emixam|4 months ago

It is for now. Hoping to rally others !