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Scott Chamberlain

[blog] Picking a web framework

recology.info/2025/03/web-fram

Wrote up some thoughts/learnings on looking into what web framework to use for a work project

Recology · Picking a web frameworkOver the past few months at work we’ve been looking into web framework options for a project that currently uses R Shiny. Our needs have grown beyond what Shiny can provide. We decided to try Rails, SvelteKit, and HTMX/FastAPI to see which one would best suit our needs. The frameworks Info and links on each: Rails Main language: Ruby Docs: Rails Guides Svelte Kit Main language: JavaScript Docs: Svelte Kit Docs HTMX/FastAPI Main language: Python Docs: HTMX Docs, FastAPI Docs Build minimal apps I built a minimal version of our existing Shiny app using each framework. For each app I created only the landing page, and two other pages - in total these three pages encompassed a lot of the complexity of the app, and allowed me to get a feel for how it would be to use each framework IRL. Because of reasons I’m not going to share these minimal apps.
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Mario Munoz

@sckottie Blog link is missing, but found it from your bio :)

recology.info/2025/03/web-fram

Recology · Picking a web frameworkOver the past few months at work we’ve been looking into web framework options for a project that currently uses R Shiny. Our needs have grown beyond what Shiny can provide. We decided to try Rails, SvelteKit, and HTMX/FastAPI to see which one would best suit our needs. The frameworks Info and links on each: Rails Main language: Ruby Docs: Rails Guides Svelte Kit Main language: JavaScript Docs: Svelte Kit Docs HTMX/FastAPI Main language: Python Docs: HTMX Docs, FastAPI Docs Build minimal apps I built a minimal version of our existing Shiny app using each framework. For each app I created only the landing page, and two other pages - in total these three pages encompassed a lot of the complexity of the app, and allowed me to get a feel for how it would be to use each framework IRL. Because of reasons I’m not going to share these minimal apps.
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Minkiu

@sckottie a little too late, but would have enjoyed if Litestar litestar.dev/ was thrown in the mix, while I enjoy FastAPI, it feels quite barebones (might as well use Starlette and Pydantic directly), while Litestar feels (emphasis on feels cause I havent really used it enough yet) like it provides more stuff expected from a web framework.
Nice post tho!

litestar.devLitestar | Effortlessly Build Performant APIsLitestar | Effortlessly Build Performant APIs
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Scott Chamberlain

@minkiu thanks for pointing out Litestar. I’ll def. have a look at it. this page docs.litestar.dev/2/migration/ has some good translations between frameworks but doesn't seem like much info on which is better

docs.litestar.devFrom Starlette / FastAPI — Litestar Framework
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