Ask.

Ask is a modern open source transpiled programming language, designed for building backend services and APIs.

Built-in JWT Authentication.
Super Simple Database Management.
Syntax Inspired by Python.
Built-in CORS Support.
Reduces Boilerplate.

Install Ask

v1.5.0

Focus on The Right Things

Ask hides away all initial configurations & boilerplate code. This ensures that all the code you write is actually related to building functionality.

Don't Waste Time

Less code means less things to worry about. It's easier to find bugs in smaller code bases, and managing less code also makes it easier to add new features.

Extendable & Customizable

Simple doesn't mean basic. You can actually import external modules written in Python to Ask. This means that Ask can in practice do anything Python can.

Development.

Ask's syntax is heavily inspired by Python, and can almost be considered to be a superset of Python. This means that picking up Ask is super easy if you’re already familiar with Python.

The main idea behind Ask is to simplify common backend actions (e.g. working with databases). Building a full database CRUD REST API with JWT authentication in Ask is very straight forward and simple and requires virtually zero lines of boilerplate code and no setup whatsoever.

- Syntax Inspired by Python.

- Easy to Learn.

- Elegant & Clean.

- Reduces Boilerplate.

- Transpiles to Python.

- Easy & Straight Forward to Deploy.

- Generates a Standalone Flask App.

Deployment.

Ask is a transpiled language (kind of like TypeScript) which means that it compiles the source code to another language that has a similar level of abstraction. In Ask's case the target language is Python, more specifically a Flask app.

Flask is a very popular and well-established web framework for Python, so there's already a lot of tools, and services for deploying Flask apps.

The transpiled app is completely standalone and doesn't require Ask in any way.

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Example App

A basic REST API for a basic note taking app. This API allows users to login/signup, fetch their notes, and create notes.

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			&basic
			db_model User:
				id = db.col(db.int, db.pk)
				email = db.col(db.str)
				password = db.col(db.str(256))
				
			&basic
			db_model Note:
				id = db.col(db.int, db.pk)
				title = db.col(db.str)
				text = db.col(db.str)
				user_email = db.col(db.str)
			
			&protected
			@get('/notes'):
				notes = Note.db.get_by(user_email=auth.user())
				respond(serialize(notes))
			
			&protected
			@post('/note'):
				if require_keys(['title', 'text'], body):
					status('Title and/or text missing', 400)
				
				new_note = Note(body[title], body[text], auth.user())
				db.add(new_note)
				respond(new_note.s())
			
			@post('/login'):
				if require_keys(['email', 'password']):
					status('Email and/or password missing', 400)
				
				# Verifies the password.
				user = User.db.get_by(email=body[email])
				if not hash.check(user.password, body['password']):
					status('Wrong password', 401)
				
				# Generates API toke that's valid for one hour.
				respond({ token: auth.login(body['email'], 3600) })
			
			
			@post('/signup'):
				if require_keys(['email', 'password']):
					status('Email and/or password missing', 400)
				
				# Checks if the email is already in use.
				tmp = User.db.get_by(email=body['email']).first()
				if db.exists(tmp):
					status('Email already registered', 400)
				
				# Creates the user.
				new_user = User(body['email'], hash.hash(body['password']))
				db.add(new_user)
				
				status('User created', 200)

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