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by dartharva 665 days ago
What's easier if I just want to make random personal-use web apps for myself as a beginner, this or FastHTML?
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It probably depends on what you want. From a quick glance at the code, this looks like something that works really well for a few narrow use cases (but seems very productive in those niches).

FastHTML should be more generic and able to do more things but you’re going to have to know HTML. It looks like they just translated HTML tags to Python classes that generate the HTML. There’s no “magic” hiding the HTML from you.

I prefer just writing the HTML. I don’t love wrapping HTML in Python like FastHTML, it feels like it always eventually becomes an issue for some reason or another. The narrow frameworks can be very cool when they fit, though.

Streamlit. Well maintained and easy for beginners.