References

htpy was heavily inspired by many other libraries and articles. This page lists some of them.

Similar libraries and tools

• 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.

Articles about HTML generation without templates

• 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.