pglet VS examples

It took me a while to re-find a "Python web app" project that has been posted here and that I vaguely remembered. So I am gonna post it here. It's Pglet https://github.com/pglet/pglet and Flet seems to be its spiritual successor.

Hey, try Pglet - it's very easy to get started and UI looks cool. There is a tutorial how to make a simple To-Do app in Python: https://pglet.io/docs/tutorials/python

Pglet website is made with Docusaurus and hosted on Cloudflare Pages. However, the following solution could be easily adopted for other React-based website frameworks such as Next.js and use a different backend for server-side logic such as Vercel Functions or Deno Deploy.

Pglet – Web UI framework for back end developers\ (25 comments)

I've been developing Pglet framework for 6 months now and I feel it's finally ready for building real apps.

Oh, ASP.NET Web Forms were awesome! I remember it was so easy to onboard new developers: built-in state management between requests, WYSIWYG editor, high-level controls abstracting from HTML. Maybe because I miss ASP.NET so much :) I started working on https://github.com/pglet/pglet to have something like "ASP.NET on steroids" - server-side controls with React UI. However, it's not a HTML passing over WebSockets, but controls state which takes much less traffic with smaller latencies.

In this tutorial we will show you, step-by-step, how to create a ToDo web app in Python using Pglet framework and then share it on the internet. The app is a single-file console program of just 100 lines of Python code, yet it is a multi-session, modern single-page application with rich, responsive UI.

Ha, it's so relieving you've completely got the idea of this project :) (though I'm still trying to find the right words to sell it to people)! The server is written in Go (single exe, any platform/OS), receives "commands" mutating server-side DOM and dispatches events coming from React components. Bindings can be written in any language (we already have Bash, C#, PowerShell, Node - https://github.com/pglet/examples ) and it's basically translating DOM into a bunch of commands.