Custom Templating

If you're not into Jinja templating, the hx() and page() decorators give you all the flexibility you need: you can integrate any HTML rendering or templating engine into fasthx simply by implementing the HTMLRenderer protocol. Similarly to the Jinja case, hx() only triggers HTML rendering for HTMX requests, while page() unconditionally renders HTML. See the example code below:

from typing import Annotated, Any

from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI, Request
from fasthx import hx, page

# Create the app.
app = FastAPI()

# Create a dependecy to see that its return value is available in the render function.
def get_random_number() -> int:
    return 4  # Chosen by fair dice roll.

DependsRandomNumber = Annotated[int, Depends(get_random_number)]

# Create the render methods: they must always have these three arguments.
# If you're using static type checkers, the type hint of `result` must match
# the return type annotation of the route on which this render method is used.
def render_index(result: list[dict[str, str]], *, context: dict[str, Any], request: Request) -> str:
    return "<h1>Hello FastHX</h1>"

def render_user_list(result: list[dict[str, str]], *, context: dict[str, Any], request: Request) -> str:
    # The value of the `DependsRandomNumber` dependency is accessible with the same name as in the route.
    random_number = context["random_number"]
    lucky_number = f"<h1>{random_number}</h1>"
    users = "".join(("<ul>", *(f"<li>{u['name']}</li>" for u in result), "</ul>"))
    return f"{lucky_number}\n{users}"

@app.get("/")
@page(render_index)
def index() -> None:
    ...

@app.get("/htmx-or-data")
@hx(render_user_list)
def htmx_or_data(random_number: DependsRandomNumber) -> list[dict[str, str]]:
    return [{"name": "Joe"}]

@app.get("/htmx-only")
@hx(render_user_list, no_data=True)
async def htmx_only(random_number: DependsRandomNumber) -> list[dict[str, str]]:
    return [{"name": "Joe"}]