Glossary¶

FastAPI¶

FastAPI is micro frameword based on ASGI.

HTMX¶

HTMX is a javascript library that extend HTML to do [https://htmx.org/essays/hypermedia-driven-applications/](hypermedia driven applications). Fastlife is a web framework made for this kind of architecture arround HTMX.

Website: https://htmx.org/

Jinjax¶

JinjaX is a template engine for made for clarity. It is an extension of the Jinja2 template engine.

Website: https://jinjax.scaletti.dev/

OpenAPI¶

OpenAPI is a specification for building APIs that defines a standard way to describe the structure and capabilities of RESTful APIs in a machine-readable format. FastAPI generates the OpenAPI spec file directly from its API.

Website: https://www.openapis.org/

Pyramid¶

Pyramid is Python Web Framework based on WSGI. fastlife take a lots of inspiration from Pyramid.

Website: https://trypyramid.com/

Pydantic¶

Pydantic is a widely used Python library for data validation.

Pydantic ensures your data is accurate and well-structured by validating it as you work with Python classes.

In Fastlife, Pydantic models are also used to generate HTML form models using a set of extensible fastlife.adapters.jinjax.widgets.

Website: https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/

Pydantic Settings¶

Pydantic Settings is a library made to load your setting from multiple source. Environment variables is encouraged by the library.

Website: https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/api/pydantic_settings/

Redoc¶

An alternative to Swagger UI. An interactive documentation from OpenAPI Format.

Website: https://redocly.com/docs/redoc

Swagger UI¶

Swagger UI is a web interface that create a documentation and a playground to test API based on the OpenAPI format.

Website: https://swagger.io/tools/swagger-ui/

Tailwind CSS¶

A CSS framework where you compose with existing class intead of writings your own ones.

Website: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/

Widget¶

A widget in fastlife refer to a JinjaX compoment made for handling data input in a form for a Pydantic field.