On: Show HN: Pynecone – Web Apps in Pure Python

[rahimnathwani]

A comment at the bottom of the thread (at the time of writing) explains how it works:

  In Pynecone, the frontend compiles down to a NextJS/React app, and the backend is a FastAPI server. Events are sent as network calls that update the app state, and the state delta is sent back to the React app, which updates the UI.

EDIT: The gallery is also useful: https://pynecone.io/docs/gallery

[stevesimmons → rahimnathwani]

Thanks for highlighting this comment.

A succinct explanation of the underlying design is the best way to get me from "oh that's cute" to "wow, I want to try this".

[dandigangi → rahimnathwani]

That's going to be rough to maintain as they update Next/React if this thing lasts for any reasonable period of time. No tests written at all either.

[apetuskey → dandigangi]

This is just a question of how involved we can make our open source community and that it not true about the tests https://github.com/pynecone-io/pynecone/tree/main/tests we also a have GitHub action set up, every pr that runs these test. Today was literally our first public launch we will improve as time goes on

[dandigangi → apetuskey]

Apologies - posted before I went through everything.

[apetuskey → dandigangi]

No problem thanks for checking us out!

[folkrav → zackees]

Any source for this? FastAPI advertises itself as production ready:

> Robust: Get production-ready code. With automatic interactive documentation. [1]

> FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production. [2]

[1] https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/ [2] https://twitter.com/FastAPI

[bgm1975 → folkrav]

I’m assuming the parent is referring to Pinecone, not FastAPI.