Taking a different approach?

[rsyring]

Hi there. I've been thinking about building something similar to hypergen but using htmx or unpoly and usable from Flask, not just Django. Seems like a better approach to me than frameworks with more "magic" like NiceGUI and ReactPy.

Looks like a ton of effort went into building this project, all the experiments and examples, etc. But the hypergen.it website is down now and no commits for a couple years in the repo.

Have you given up on the approach and moved on to something else? If so, could you share more about what you transitioned to and why?

Thanks.

[runekaagaard]

Hi Randy,

Thx for your interest in hypergen! Nice to see anyone curious about the project :)

It's still very much in use! Our small developer team is using it daily as the foundation for our company's healthcare platform, supporting 50,000+ unique healthcare clients annually. The core has reached maturity with a stable codebase. While it powers all our new feature development, it's mainly in a maintenance phase now with updates focusing on bug fixes and optimizations.

Ah yes, the site is down, sry about that - will make sure it goes up again soon. The examples and documentation should run locally though if you follow the instructions in the readme.

We actually started out supporting Flask (and other Python frameworks) too, but found there was so much extra value in specializing on Django. The integration is much smoother and we could leverage Django's ecosystem more effectively. Supporting other engines, should be quite doable though.

The big difference to htmx is in the event handling. Hypergen doesn't introduce a new language for what happens when a user e.g. clicks a button and IMO has a cleaner separation between backend and frontend. Writing templates in pure Python is definitely an acquired taste but works very well for us - no context switching between languages and you get all the composability of Python functions. It's also very nice not having to think (much) about serializing/deserializing between client and server as all data lives on the backend.

I've updated the readme with a project status - thank you so much for reaching out. It's been a bit disappointing how little interest the project has gotten as we've really tried to make good documentation and a nice composable architecture.

Let me know if you have any other questions about our approach!

[runekaagaard]

The website is up again at https://hypergen.it/

Thx for letting me know!