Mountaineer – Webapps in Python and React
Hey HN, I’m Pierce. Today I’m open sourcing a beta of Mountaineer, an integrated framework for building webapps in React and Python. I’ve written a good 25+ webapps over the last few years in almost every major framework under the sun. Python and React remain my favorite. They let you get started quickly and grow to scale. But the developer experience of linking these two worlds remains less than optimal: — Sharing typehints and schemas across frontend and backend code — Scattered fetch() calls to template data and modify server objects — Server side rendering / gateway support — Error…
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Mountaineer is an open-source framework for building web applications that combines Python backends with React frontends. It addresses integration challenges between these two languages by allowing developers to share type hints across frontend and backend code, centralizing data fetching, and providing server-side rendering support. The framework maintains a lightweight approach, using a single React hook and MVC conventions on the backend to streamline development while leveraging the strengths of both Python and React.
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Hey HN, I’m Pierce. Today I’m open sourcing a beta of Mountaineer, an integrated framework for building webapps in React and Python. I’ve written a good 25+ webapps over the last few years in almost every major framework under the sun. Python and React remain my favorite. They let you get started quickly and grow to scale. But the developer experience of linking these two worlds remains less than optimal: — Sharing typehints and schemas across frontend and backend code — Scattered fetch() calls to template data and modify server objects — Server side rendering / gateway support — Error handling on frontend fetches Mountaineer is an attempt to solve those problems. I didn’t want to re-invent the wheel of what Python and React are good at, so it’s relatively light on syntax. It provides one frontend hook for React apps and introduces a MVC convention on the backend for managing views. Support files are generated progressively through a local watcher, so IDE type-hints and function calls work out of the box. It’s more intuitive to explain with some code, so pop over to the Github if you’re interested in this stack and taking a look: Github: https://github.com/piercefreeman/mountaineer More context: https://freeman.vc/notes/mountaineer-v01-webapps-in-python-a... Would love to hear your thoughts!
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