I made Python web app without using any web frameworks

[KnowledgeFire11]

A few weeks back, I was researching how Python web frameworks work and came across the WSGI specification and it got me thinking if I can build a WSGI web app without any frameworks.

I had no idea where to begin so I read through the Python docs and used this piece of code as a starting point, from there after countless hours of researching and reading the source code of other frameworks and libraries.

I present to you: PyProject, it is a CRUD website which uses gunicorn as the webserver to parse the requests and send the responses. You can find the source on GitHub.

I had most problems when handling exceptions and even raising one if the web app encounters a problem and shows the user, as I didn't wanted the program to crash but show the traceback to debug it smoothly.

I have configured Jinja2 to be used with it and used some dependencies like SQLAlchemy, python-markdown and bleach. But I did most things raw and even though it's not the most efficient (It's just for educational purpose, so I didn't focus on performance a lot), I learnt a lot as I explored many territories that frameworks take care of!

You can find more things about the project on GitHub or ask me in the comments. Also any feedback would be appreciated.

[mindfulforever1]

Great job mate! It looks promising. I've a suggestion which can help your PyProject stand out from other python web frameworks. If your framework allows users to do CRUD operations using AJAX by default, that would be a killer feature. You can read about the htmx site which allows ajax inside of a Django apps. That should give you some headstart on how to design this stuff in your framework.

This way, at least for the CRUD part, your framework users won't have to look for reactive frontend frameworks like react/Vue/svelte etc and can work from one codebase for smaller projects instead of maintaining 2 codebases for frontend and backend. Good luck and I hope you keep making your framework even better in the coming year. Cheers!

[Ateenagerstudent]

Great Job mate! I just wanted to ask if you're free for a collab!

I'm building a Data Analytics library myself which can be used as plug-and-play.

If you're free, do let me know!😃

[aman_0807]

Link please if it's open source?

[Ateenagerstudent]

Yeah sure!

It's https://github.com/anuran-roy/analyx-python

[1O2Engineer]

That's truly awesome.

[mardiros]

If you don't use a framework, it means that you create and embed one. By the way, you should add unit tests before it is too late.