Show HN: Mountaineer – Webapps in Python and React

Hey HN, I’m Pierce. Today I’m open sourcing a beta of Mountaineer, an integrated framework for building webapps in React and Python.<p>I’ve written a good 25+ webapps over the last few years in almost every major framework under the sun. Python and React remain my favorite. They let you get started quickly and grow to scale. But the developer experience of linking these two worlds remains less than optimal:<p>— Sharing typehints and schemas across frontend and backend code<p>— Scattered fetch() calls to template data and modify server objects<p>— Server side rendering &#x2F; gateway support<p>— Error handling on frontend fetches<p>Mountaineer is an attempt to solve those problems. I didn’t want to re-invent the wheel of what Python and React are good at, so it’s relatively light on syntax. It provides one frontend hook for React apps and introduces a MVC convention on the backend for managing views. Support files are generated progressively through a local watcher, so IDE type-hints and function calls work out of the box.<p>It’s more intuitive to explain with some code, so pop over to the Github if you’re interested in this stack and taking a look:<p>Github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;piercefreeman&#x2F;mountaineer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;piercefreeman&#x2F;mountaineer</a><p>More context: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freeman.vc&#x2F;notes&#x2F;mountaineer-v01-webapps-in-python-and-react" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freeman.vc&#x2F;notes&#x2F;mountaineer-v01-webapps-in-python-a...</a><p>Would love to hear your thoughts!