I recently wrote about Picking a web framework for a project at work. We’re moving from an R Shiny app to something else. We weren’t sure what that something else should be so I rebuilt the app (in part) in three different web frameworks (each in a different programming language): FastAPI (Python) Rails (Ruby) Svelte (JavaScript) I decided to go with FastAPI for many reasons - go read the post linked above. ...
Over 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. ...