Flask

Pros

• Tech stack: Flask/FastAPI backend, JavaScript frontend, SQLite database (~1M records). Targeting users who want to self-host.
• My web app was built with Python (Flask) and HTMX. I chose the strategy of building a server whose endpoints primarily return HTML. Sometimes they return the full UI, other times just a fragment to replace a piece. This kept my mental m...
• Python is also a great choice, especially with its demand and easy-to-learn frameworks like Django and Flask.
• Now, I'm also trying to learn Python with Flask.
• Flask has its own mini web server built in, look up WSL and Vscode and you can get a nice little dev environment set up where changes are made live as you edit code.

Cons

• I would prefer to use Flask or Laravel with a small backend but that doesn't work with Github/Cloudflare.
• My point is, I have a Ubuntu Linux server running a flask app and nginx.
• That's part of the reason I like Django over Flask. They're pretty similar except Django is more opinionated with more batteries included. Flask has similar syntax, similar templating but you can just do whatever the hell you like.