References¶

pyxy - Write HTML tags directly in Python (like JSX). Uses htpy to generate markup. A modern take on pyxl.

Projects That Use htpy¶

voterbowl.org - College students win prizes by checking if they are registered to vote: Github repository.

htpy was heavily inspired by many other libraries that came before it.

JSX/React - Made writing HTML in a programming language popular.
pyxl, pyxl3, pyxl4 - Write HTML in Python with JSX-like syntax. Not actively maintained.
htbuilder - Very similar to htpy but does not currently support automatic escaping.
nevow.stan - Probably the earliest use of [] syntax for specifying children. Not actively maintained.
breve - Another early implementation of HTML in Python, Using getattr [] syntax for children. Not actively maintained.
hyperscript - JavaScript library that also uses CSS selector-like syntax for specifying id and classes.
hyperpython - A Python interpretation of hyperscript. Not actively maintained.
h by Adam Johnson - Similar to htpy, uses call syntax (()) for attributes and getitem ([]) for children.
lxml.builder - lxml's E allows creating XML/XHTML documents from Python.

Jeff Atwood - You're Doing It Wrong - Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood
Tavis Rudd - Throw out your templates - Tavis Rudd, creator of Python template language "Cheetah" argues for creating HTML without templates.
David Ford - 80% of my coding is doing this (or why templates are dead) - Discusses various techniques for rendering HTML.