Development updates
Experimenting with a plain help command that lists out all available commands and options... one more step towards figuring out what makes a framework "AI-friendly"
plain.pytest 0.8.0 includes a new testbrowser fixture — this brings together playwright, pytest-playwright, and gunicorn to start running browser tests with no additional setup
The plain-importmap package is being removed for now. The implementation wasn't quite right, and it's not totally clear that it's actually needed.
In practice, plain-esbuild (bundling) has been more useful, and plain-vendor can be used when creating importmaps manually.
First draft of the Plain principles https://plainframework.com/principles/
Elements are getting a syntax update! Now it looks more like jsx, with single braces to distinguish Python variables.
The plain fix command now uses
Biome to lint and format javascript, json, and css files. Combined with ruff for python, it's an all-in-one preconfigured toolset for code formatting.
The updated admin toolbar
- goes full width
- shows request, url, and view info
- tracks sql queries across requests
- can show custom panels
More breaking changes! The request GET and POST have been replaced by query_params and data (which can now parse JSON).
The plain.api package is being reworked!
Plain itself is even more JSON-friendly than before, and the new plain.api views bring it all together with API keys and (optional) OpenAPI/swagger.json generation
The first plainx community package is plainx-sentry (integration with Sentry).
We aren't planning to maintain official, first-party integrations for other commercial services... but we could provide some kind of vetted directory that includes them!
Third-party packages will use the plainx namespace (instead of plain). This should help distinguish between official and community, and remove some decision making around naming.
Both use PEP 420 "implicit namespaces" so the end result is a clean from plainx import {pkg}
For anybody interested in helping out: https://plainframework.com/contribute/
Removing model abstractions, changing field options