PY4WEB is a Python web framework designed for building database driven web applications with less boilerplate.
It’s the successor to web2py, offering a faster and more modern foundation while keeping familiar concepts such as forms, grids, validators, HTML helpers, and database abstraction through pyDAL.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Runs multiple applications from a single apps folder.
- Includes a web dashboard for development and application management.
- Provides built-in form handling and grid based CRUD capabilities.
- Uses pyDAL for database connectivity.
- Supports sessions stored in cookies, databases, memcache, Redis, or custom backends.
- Includes caching support with cache.memoize.
- Supports htmx for building interactive web interfaces.
- Works with standard Python debugging tools and IDEs.
- Can run with server backends including Tornado, Gunicorn, gevent, Waitress, Rocket3, and WSGIRef.
Website: github.com/web2py/py4web
Support:
Developer: Massimo Di Pierro and contributors
License: BSD 3-Clause License
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