Building a Multilingual Blog with FastHTML
3 days ago
- #Python
- #FastHTML
- #Multilingual Blog
- Creating a multilingual blog in Python with FastHTML for native Markdown support and code highlighting.
- Avoiding JavaScript frameworks to stay within Python ecosystem for development.
- Implementing a language switcher using HTMX for dynamic content updates without page refresh.
- Using OpenAI's API with Pydantic for automatic post translation between languages.
- Tracking changes with content hashes to avoid unnecessary translations.
- Setting up a pre-commit hook to ensure translations stay in sync with source posts.
- Emphasizing the simplicity and satisfaction of building a custom solution in Python.