Flet 0.1.42 has been released with navigation and routing!

Navigation and routing is an essential feature of Single Page Applications (SPA) which allows organizing application user interface into virtual pages (views) and "navigate" between them while application URL reflects the current state of the app.

For mobile apps navigation and routing serves as a deep linking to specific application parts.

Well, it took more efforts than expected to add navigation and routing into Flet as the implementation is based on Navigator 2.0 Flutter API and required to replace Flet's "Page" abstraction with "Page and Views". Flutter's newer navigation and routing API has substantial improvements such as:

1. Programmatic control over history stack.
2. An easy way to intercept a call to "Back" button in AppBar.
3. Robust synchronization with browser history.

Explore source code of the example above.

We have just released Flet 0.1.41 with drag-and-drop support and other neat features such as absolute positioning of controls inside stack and clickable container!

Drag and Drop​

Making drag-and-drop in Flet is a real joy - thanks to a smart drag-and-drop implementation in Flutter! You just have "draggable" control which could be dragged to a "drag target" which calls on_accept event handler when draggable is dropped.

Take a look at Drag-and-Drop example.

Explore Draggable and DragTarget controls, their properties and events.

You can now use your own fonts in a Flet app!

The following font formats are supported:

• .ttc
• .ttf
• .otf

Use page.fonts property to import fonts.

Today we announce the first release of Flet!

Flet is a framework for building real-time web, desktop and mobile applications in Python.

No more complex architecture with JavaScript frontend, REST API backend, database, cache, etc. With Flet you just write a monolith stateful app in Python only and get multi-user, realtime Single-Page Application (SPA) or a mobile app.

To start developing with Flet, you just need your favorite IDE or text editor. No SDKs, no thousands of dependencies, no complex tooling - Flet has built-in web server with assets hosting and desktop clients.

Flet UI is built with Flutter, so your app looks professional and can be delivered to any platform. Flet simplifies Flutter model by combining smaller "widgets" into ready-to-use "controls" with imperative programming model. You get all the power of Flutter without having to learn Dart!

Flet app is deployed as a regular web app and can be instanly accessed with a browser or installed as a PWA on a mobile device. Web app also exposes an API that can be used by a Flet client (planned for future releases) running on iOS and Android and providing native mobile experience.

Some examples:

• Greeter
• Counter
• To-Do
• Icons Browser (Online Demo)

Give Flet a try and let us know what you think!