alt.hn

3/23/2026 at 2:56:49 PM

Experimenting with Starlette 1.0 with Claude skills

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/22/starlette/

by TheTaytay

3/23/2026 at 10:38:43 PM

simonw, have you messed about with FastHTML yet? It uses Starlette for the basis of my it framework as well (however it's quite different).

by indigodaddy

3/24/2026 at 12:25:29 AM

A tiny bit, but it never really appealed to me because I've never been heavily into the API-only version of web development - I still like building things that are mostly Jinja templates and HTML forms with a sprinkle of JavaScript.

My JSON API needs are simple enough that default Starlette handles them well.

I'm beginning to come round to the benefits of OpenAPI now which seems like a big note in FastAPI's favor, so maybe I'll give it more of a shot.

by simonw