reflex VS fswatch

Hey thanks for the feedback. We're working on relaxing our dependencies [1] to make reflex more compatible. Do you remember what libraries you had the conflict with?

[1] https://github.com/reflex-dev/reflex/pull/2796

Thanks! Pue looks cool, thanks for sharing. I see some similarities to https://reflex.dev in terms of providing a declarative dom expression language with built-in conditionals and loop primitives.

In the dynamic world of web development, Python has emerged as a dominant force, especially in backend development – the primary focus of this blog post. Although it's worth mentioning that there are ongoing efforts to use Python for the frontend as well, like Reflex (previously known as Pynecone, they presumably had to change their name because of Pinecone vector database), which even garnered support from Y Combinator. Samuel Colvin (creator of Pydantic) is also working on FastUI (he literally just released the first version in December 2023).

They have a ready to use LLM chat App, which makes it more likely I will check it out.

https://github.com/reflex-dev/reflex

We will use Reflex to build this chatbot.

To learn more about Reflex, you can read here: https://reflex.dev/

Reflex is an open-source, full-stack Python framework that makes it easy to build and deploy web apps in minutes. You have most of the features of a frontend library like Reactjs and a backend framework like Django in one with ease in development and deployment. All while developing in a single language PYTHON.

Repo : https://github.com/reflex-dev/reflex

Or even better, fswatch (https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch) which works on Linux, BSDs, macOS, Windows, and even Solaris

If you don’t mind shell shell scripting you can use something like fswatch and some shell logic to do something similar.

Well, I am not too lazy to search but I was interested in your experience, especially with reliability.

This one looks interesting: https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch

What about using https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch ?

The required kernel hooks exist in pretty much any common OS these days, it is a user-space tool that is sometimes missing.

It may not be installed by default, but inotifywait is available in common Linux distributions, usually in a package called something like ionotify-tools, and has been for over a decade-ana-half IIRC. It'll work under WSL on Windows too, though only for ext4 devices not bits of the Windows filesystem made available to Linux.

I can't speak to what other OSs include by default, but as every major OS has a different API for defining how to register a lister and how it gets messages no built-in tool is going to be cross platform. There are third party tools which present more cross-platform consistency, most notably https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch#readme (also available in common Linux distros, just an apt install away in Debian for instance).

fswatch is a cross-platform file change monitor. It will watch any files you specify, then run a script on change.

You can do this without polling using a util like fswatch: https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch

> It watches source files, and regenerates the OpenSCAD files automatically

inotify() is awesome. Here's a library in python that does it.

https://michaelcho.me/article/using-pythons-watchdog-to-moni...

There's also inotifywatch on linux and fswatch on mac. I'm sure there's alternatives for BSD Unix and Windows, but I care the least about those OS's.

https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch

For development it's easy to just ParseFiles before every Execute to be sure you have the latest version. But for production something else is needed, fx watch for changes in files and have this trigger a reload (fx using https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch).