- 👑 ArchonKit — A Django-Style Framework for FastAPI (MPA-First Approach)
- 💡 Why ArchonKit
- 🧠 Why FastAPI Instead of Django
- 🌍 Why MPA-First
- ✨ Features
ArchonKit is more than just a scaffolder — it’s a CLI-powered web framework for building server-rendered (MPA) applications with FastAPI.
It provides a Django-like project structure and developer experience while keeping FastAPI’s async-native performance, flexibility, and modern Python tooling.
ArchonKit helps developers build traditional, monolithic, server-rendered web apps — without sacrificing the benefits of an async architecture.
🧱 MPA-First. Monolithic. Modern.
I started building ArchonKit because I wanted to create server-rendered (MPA) applications with FastAPI — but quickly realized that FastAPI doesn’t provide much support for that use case.
It’s great for APIs, but when building MPAs, I often found myself repeating the same setup: configuring templates, writing boilerplate routes, managing static files, and setting up SQLAlchemy models manually every time.
There was no clear structure or tooling for full web apps — just pieces I had to assemble from scratch.
So I built ArchonKit to streamline that process:
to bring a Django-style structure and workflow to FastAPI,
while keeping its async speed and flexibility.
ArchonKit grew out of my own need to make FastAPI feel at home for building traditional, monolithic, server-rendered web applications.
ArchonKit is built on FastAPI — not for APIs, but as the foundation of a modern, MPA-first, monolithic web framework.
While Django remains a proven full-stack framework, it’s also highly opinionated and rigid in structure. Its tightly coupled components make it difficult to experiment with new patterns or async workflows.
FastAPI, on the other hand, provides a clean and modular foundation that allows ArchonKit to stay monolithic by choice, yet modern in design.
- ⚡ ASGI & Async-Native – Runs on modern Python async I/O for high performance and scalability.
- 🧩 Monolithic by Design – Everything lives in one cohesive project for simplicity and clarity.
- 🧠 MPA-First – Focused on classic, server-rendered pages using Jinja2 templates.
- 🧱 Opinionated, Not Restrictive – Provides structure while staying flexible where it matters.
- 🔮 Future-Ready – Built to support WebSockets, streaming, and reactive UI patterns.
Although ArchonKit integrates tightly with SQLAlchemy, this coupling is intentional and modular — providing a powerful database layer without the heavy abstractions of Django’s stack.
In short, FastAPI gives ArchonKit the perfect balance: the performance and modern architecture of an async framework, with the simplicity and developer experience of a classic monolithic web framework.
ArchonKit follows an MPA-first (Multi-Page Application) philosophy — prioritizing server-rendered pages over heavy front-end frameworks.
Modern web stacks have become increasingly complex, with layers of client-side routing, hydration, and state management. ArchonKit brings back the simplicity of traditional web development while embracing the best of modern async Python.
- 🧩 Simplicity by Design – Each request is rendered on the server — no build tools, hydration, or complex front-end state to manage.
- ⚡ Performance & SEO – Server-rendered HTML means faster first paint, better SEO, and minimal JavaScript.
- 🧠 Developer Productivity – Focus on Python, templates, and logic — not front-end pipelines.
- 🔌 Async & Real-Time Ready – Powered by FastAPI, ArchonKit supports async I/O, WebSockets, and streaming responses.
- 🪶 Light but Dynamic – Combine with htmx or Alpine.js for SPA-like interactivity without the overhead.
In 2025, MPAs aren’t outdated — they’re evolving.
ArchonKit embraces this evolution, merging the clarity of classic web apps with the performance and capabilities of modern async frameworks.
- 🏗️ Project & App Scaffolding – Quickly create new projects and modular apps (
users,blog, etc.) with a clean layout. - 📂 Django-Like Structure – Familiar organization:
forms.py,models.py,routes.py,templates/, andstatic/. - 🗄️ SQLAlchemy ORM + Alembic – Built-in database layer with migrations.
- ⚡ Async-Native – Full FastAPI async support, even for MPA development.
- 🛠️ Developer Workflow – Inspired by Django’s commands (
makemigrations,migrate, etc.).
ArchonKit combines the elegance of Django’s structure with the power of FastAPI’s async engine — bringing back the joy of building classic MPAs in the modern Python ecosystem.