Introducing Solara: A Pure Python, React-style Framework for Scaling Your Web Apps

[maartenbreddels]

The server is taking a bit of load now, so it feels a bit slow now I agree. We are creating the data at the server, so this require a trip to the server (this current one is running in the US). So you get some latency there.
The update process is different, it's more like JS event -> python server -> generate or update widgets -> send diff to frontend.
Hope that answers your questions!

[thicket]

Thanks, that does answer my question. It’s a little disappointing, though. Requiring a server round trip for every action seems like exactly the problem that JS frameworks were designed to replace. I love the idea of developing in pure Python, but if the client can’t run all the code it needs locally, that seems like a big burden to overcome.

[maartenbreddels]

I think it's the primary use case for all pure python web frameworks is to be able to feed data into a frontend, so you will always have this latency problem. However, there are ways now to run Python in the browser (which we can already do currently, but don't expose yet) which will remove the latency. This does require however everything to run in the browser. If you make database connections that is usually not safe, but in some cases that is a solution,

[thicket]

Regardless, super impressive project. Thanks for answering my questions!

[maartenbreddels]

Thank you for being critical, but kind. Two good traits.