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Transcrypt

Explore how to use Transcrypt to seamlessly translate Python into JavaScript, enabling you to develop front-end web applications using familiar Python syntax while maintaining efficient browser performance. Understand Transcrypt's role as a bridge between Python and JavaScript and how it fits into modern web development workflows.

What is Transcrypt?

The heart of the toolchain that allows the magic to happen is Transcrypt, a pip-installed Python-to-JavaScript transpiler. It takes the Python code that we write and converts that Python code into a JavaScript file. That file can then be loaded into a web browser, which allows the code to be run without any browser plug-in or large JavaScript runtime download required. Since the code is pre-compiled into JavaScript before it is downloaded to the browser, application performance is not compromised.

Transcrypt does include a small (~42kb) runtime module that gets served up to the web browser along with the transpiled code and any other ...