Fount

Fount_ is an Apache2 licensed Python web framework_ for creating single-page applications.

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Embrace idea of components: web page can connect multiple components to
different endpoints (micro-services!)
Support Django Channels, aiohttp, and others.
Support rendering as HTML for initial-load and fallback.
Add connect() api to Page which starts task to handle incoming messages,
then update() broadcasts to all connected sockets.
Convert HTML to JSON on update().
Allow multiple components to share same websocket connection.
Use an asyncio queue for compatibility and publish/subscribe.
- Scaling is a pub/sub problem. Would it work to make the queue external?
  - How would Google pub-sub work here?
- Have input queue and output queue, output queue is drained at 60 FPS.
Page should have multiple Component(s) and a single web socket connection.
Messages should refer to Component using tag name, tag id, and tag class
properties.
Events on the client side should be identified by component id then tag
name, tag id, and tag class properties.
See also: https://anvil.works/
See also: https://github.com/flexxui/flexx

Testimonials

Does your website or company use Fount? Send us a message <[email protected]> and let us know.

Features

Pure-Python
Developed on Python 3.7

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Fully documented
100% test coverage
Used in production at ???
Tested on CPython 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 and PyPy3
Compare with https://github.com/flexxui/flexx
Compare with https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/cljawn/library_for_making_desktop_apps_like_react/

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Quickstart

Installing Fount_ is simple with pip <https://pypi.org/project/pip/>_::

$ pip install fount

You can access documentation in the interpreter with Python's built-in help function. The help works on modules, classes and methods in Fount_.

.. code-block:: python

>>> import fount
>>> help(fount)

User Guide

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Tutorial
API Reference
Case Study: Chat
Development

References

Fount Documentation_
Fount at PyPI_
Fount at Github_
Fount Issue Tracker_

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Fount License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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