fastn - Full-stack Web Development Made Easy
ftd is a programming language for building user interfaces and content centric websites. ftd is easy to learn, especially for non programmers, but does not compromise on what you can build with it.
fastn is a web-framework, a content management system, and an integrated development environment for ftd. fastn is a webserver, and compiles ftd to HTML/CSS/JS, and can be deployed on your server, or on fastn cloud by FifthTry.
The quickest way to learn fastn is the short video course we have created: expander, it takes you through the basics.
ftd: Programming Language For The Next Billion Programmers
ftd is designed with minimal and uniform syntax, and at first glance does not even look like a programming language.
-- amitu: Hello World! 😀 -- amitu: you can also write multiline messages easily! no quotes. and **markdown** is *supported*.
We have called a “function” named “amitu” with “Hello World! 😀” as input, yet it does not feel technical.
This is what it produces:
you can also write multiline messages easily!
no quotes. and markdown is supported.ftd Programming Language.There are a lot of ready made ftd components available today
-- import: fifthtry.github.io/bling/quote -- quote.charcoal: Amit Upadhyay label: Creator of FTD avatar: $fastn-assets.files.images.amitu.jpg logo: $fastn-assets.files.images.logo-fifthtry.svg The web has lost some of the exuberance from the early 2000s, and it makes me a little sad.
Or you can create your own components
-- component toggle-text: boolean $current: false caption title: -- ftd.text: $toggle-text.title align-self: center text-align: center color if { toggle-text.current }: #D42D42 color: $inherited.colors.cta-primary.text background.solid: $inherited.colors.cta-primary.base $on-click$: $ftd.toggle($a = $toggle-text.current) border-radius.px: 5 -- end: toggle-text -- toggle-text: `ftd` is cool!
ftd’s event handling capabilities can be used for form validation, ajax requests etc, to create fully functional frontend applications.You Use fastn To Work With ftd
curl -fsSL https://fastn.com/install.sh | bash
Integrated Web Development Experience
ftd and fastn come with package management, web server, opinionated design system, dark mode and responsive by default.
If you are getting started with frontend development, fastn framework takes care of a lot of things for you, and all you have to focus on is your product.
fastn for Static Sites
fastn websites can be compiled into static html, js, css etc, and can be deployed on any static hosting providers eg Github Pages, Vercel etc.ftd source code of the page you are reading-- import: fifthtry.github.io/bling/quote -- import: fastn.com/ftd as ftd-index -- my-ds.page: Overview of `fastn` and `ftd` `ftd` is a programming language for building user interfaces and content centric websites. `ftd` is easy to learn, especially for non programmers, but does not compromise on what you can build with it.
ftd is a good alternative for content websites like blogs, knowledge bases, portfolio websites, project and marketing websites etc. It is cheap, fast, and requires little maintenance.
Data Driven Website
-- import: fastn/processors as pr -- result r: $processor$: pr.http url: https://api.github.com/search/repositories sort: stars order: desc q: language:python
-- import: fastn/processors as pr -- people: $processor$: pr.package-query db: db.sqlite SELECT * FROM user; -- show-person: $p $loop$: $people as $p
fastn can be used to create data driven website, dashboards.-- fastn.dynamic-urls: # Profile Page url: /<string:username>/ document: profile.ftd
fastn can be used for creating a lot of web application backends as well.Upcoming WASM Support
wasm support so developers can extend ftd's standard libraries and offer access to more backend functionalities.
Hosting Dynamic Sites
fastn cli on the platform of your choice. We ship ready made Docker containers that you can add to your infrastructure.fastn Cloud
fastn Cloud frees you from devops needs, and you get a fully integrated, managed hosting solution, that a non programmers can use with ease.Getting Help
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