Fasthtml vs reflex

[j209]

Whats difference between two frameworks:
Fasthtml & Reflex

[ijohn]

A couple of things from the top of my head:

• FastHTML uses HTMX, while Reflex uses React, for the frontend library
• There will be 2 servers running for Reflex: Next.js to serve frontend, and FastAPI to serve the backend. FastHTML AFAIK only runs 1 server, FastAPI

[vacmar01]

Reflex compiles everything down to a React Frontend and a FastAPI backend with json based communication between the two parts.

FastHTML sends HTML from the server to the browser. Nothing gets compiled or anything.

[jamilraichouni]

A couple of things from the top of my head:

• FastHTML uses HTMX, while Reflex uses React, for the frontend library
• There will be 2 servers running for Reflex: Next.js to serve frontend, and FastAPI to serve the backend. FastHTML AFAIK only runs 1 server, FastAPI

Under the hood, FastHTML runs starlette (https://github.com/encode/starlette) and not FastAPI. You can see this in the list of dependencies:

fasthtml/settings.ini

Line 7 in 6abe003

requirements = fastcore>=1.7.18 python-dateutil starlette>0.33 oauthlib itsdangerous uvicorn[standard]>=0.30 httpx fastlite>=0.1.1 python-multipart beautifulsoup4

[ToufiqQureshi]

i think fasthtml is best beacouse have alot of tutorials so it make this easy to debug or any kind of help but reflex doesnt have any single tutorials so thath why '