Hedron

Build admin tools, CRUD apps, and dashboards in Python—without building a separate frontend.

Hedron is a typed, server-rendered UI framework for FastAPI. Routes return Python components, Hedron renders safe HTML, and HTMX updates just the part of the page that changed. You keep FastAPI's routing, dependency injection, middleware, and JSON APIs; you do not need a Node.js toolchain or a full-script rerun model.

Try it in five minutes

Requires Python 3.11–3.14. The fastest path uses uv:

uvx --from "hedron>=0.38.0,<0.39" hedron new my-hedron-app
cd my-hedron-app
uv sync
uv run uvicorn app:app --reload

Open http://127.0.0.1:8000, then click Refresh status. Only the status region is returned and swapped into the page.

The generated app is ordinary Python:

import os
from datetime import UTC, datetime

from hedron import Hedron, Page, RefreshButton, Stack, Text, html, swap

app = Hedron(
    title="Hedron App",
    security="standard",
    explorer="off",
    session_secret=os.environ.get("HEDRON_SESSION_SECRET", "replace-in-production"),
)

status = app.region("service-status", description="Live status panel")


def status_panel():
    stamp = datetime.now(UTC).strftime("%H:%M:%S UTC")
    return html.div(
        Text(f"All systems operational · refreshed {stamp}"),
        id=status.id,
        role="status",
        aria={"live": "polite"},
    )


@app.page("/")
def home() -> Page:
    return Page(
        Stack(
            Text("Hello from Hedron"),
            status_panel(),
            RefreshButton.for_region(status, href="/status", label="Refresh status"),
        ),
        title="Home",
    )


@app.fragment("/status", region=status)
def refresh_status():
    return swap(status_panel())

The declared region is both the browser swap target and a server-side allowlist. Requests aimed at undeclared targets fail closed.

Follow the first-app walkthrough or browse the single-file examples.

What Hedron gives you

Your application still owns authentication, authorization, persistence, tenancy, and deployment. Hedron is not an ORM, identity provider, hosted service, or client-side SPA runtime.

When it fits

Choose Hedron when you want to build forms, internal tools, admin surfaces, or dashboards as a conventional web application while keeping most UI code in typed Python. It is especially useful when raw FastAPI plus Jinja plus HTMX would leave you assembling the same rendering, fragment, CSRF, asset, and component conventions yourself.

Choose Streamlit for notebook-style, full-script-rerun data apps. Choose raw FastAPI and templates when you do not want a component framework. Choose a client-side framework when the product genuinely needs a large browser-side state model.

Coming from Streamlit? Start with the migration center.

Install

Pin the current Beta train so upgrades are intentional:

uv add "hedron>=0.38.0,<0.39" "uvicorn[standard]"
# or
python -m pip install "hedron>=0.38.0,<0.39" "uvicorn[standard]"

Package maturity: Beta · Train: 0.38.x · last published 0.38.0 · pin >=0.38.0,<0.39

Before deploying, read What's ready today and the shipping guide. Polling is the supported production status-update path; SSE and WebSocket helpers remain experimental.

Add only what you need

The base package includes the FastAPI application, typed UI, HTML renderer, HTMX interactions, security profiles, and CLI. Integrations are optional:

For example:

uv add "hedron[data,dev]>=0.38.0,<0.39"

Charts require the fixed compatible floor:

uv add "hedron[charts]>=0.38.0,<0.39"

See the full installation and extras guide and the compatibility matrix.

Already have a FastAPI app?

You can mount Hedron's router and static assets without replacing your application:

from fastapi import FastAPI
from hedron import HTML, HedronRouter, Text, hedron_response, mount_hedron_static
from hedron.security.policy import SecurityPolicy

app = FastAPI()
app.state.hedron_security = SecurityPolicy.from_name("standard")
mount_hedron_static(app)

ui = HedronRouter()


@ui.get("/hello", **hedron_response())
def hello():
    return HTML(Text("Hello from Hedron"))


app.include_router(ui)

Read the existing-FastAPI guide. Flask and Django hosts are available through hedron-flask and hedron-django; both share the framework-neutral hedron-core renderer.

CLI

python -m hedron new demoapp
python -m hedron --app app:app routes
python -m hedron --app app:app components
python -m hedron --app app:app preview home
python -m hedron --app app:app check
python -m hedron --app app:app graph

Learn more

• Documentation
• Learning path
• Architecture
• Components
• Changelog
• Source
• Issues

License

MIT. See the license.