A backend programming language. Ask makes it incredibly easy to create REST APIs. Ask directly transpiles to Flask so no new deployment procedures are needed. Ask focuses on clear readable code and reduces a lot of boilerplate code when working with ex. databases and JWT authentication.

• Built in JWT (json web token) authentication.
• Simple database management.
• Syntax heavily inspired by Python.
• Transpiles to plain Flask with no extra modules, libraries, etc. needed.

Here is the same basic app with one GET route written in Ask and in Python with Flask.

products = [
  {
    name: 'Product 1',
    price: 30.0,
    qty: 300
  },
  {
    name: 'Product 2',
    price: 15.5,
    qty: 20
  }
]

@get('/api/v1/products'):
  respond {products: products}

from flask import Flask, jsonify

app = Flask(__name__)

products = [
  {
    'name': 'Product 1',
    'price': 30.0,
    'qty': 300
  },
  {
    'name': 'Product 2',
    'price': 15.5,
    'qty': 20
  }
]

@app.route('/api/v1/products', methods=['GET'])
def get_products():
  return jsonify({'products': products})
  
if __name__ == '__main__':
  app.run()

• Download the ask.py file. You can also download ask-watcher.py if you want to use live transpilation.
• Write your code in a .ask file
• Download requirements.txt, and install the requirements (pip3 install -r requirements.txt)
• Transpile your code to Flask (Python) with python3 ask.py [your file].ask
• (Optional) If you want to use the watcher: python3 ask-watcher.py [your file].ask, the watcher by default uses a 5 second time out between checking your file, you can change this with an optional argument: python3 flask-watcher.py [your file].ask [number of seconds, ex. 3]

You can find the full documentation on ask.edvard.dev

Read more in the CONTRIBUTING file.