This is the repo for the Hamburg Python Pizza 2023 talk

Choose HTMX and avoid learning too much JavaScript.

This is a FastAPI project that shows you some of the basics of HTMX and how to serve it from FastAPI.

The example shows:

• login (with error message)
• detecting on the backend if htmx is used
• how to set a session id (Javascript)
• how to serve a dashboard via SSE (Server Sent Events)
• serving to out of bound elements

Check out https://htmx.org/ for documentation.

👉 Slides are in the slides folder

Installation

Create new new virtual environment: python3 -m venv venv or on Windows py -3 -m venv venv

Activate it source venv/bin/activate or on Windows venv\Scripts\activate

Install the requirements python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Running the program

Move into the app folder cd app

Start the program python main.py

The user logins are on top of the fake_backend.py file, for example user a@b.c, password d