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Anvil: full stack web apps built only with Python

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Re: Anvil: full stack web apps built only with Python

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Post by meredydd »

faitswulff wrote: post #40
meredydd wrote: post #10

Hi there! Founder here, slightly gobsmacked to see this top of HN. Do feel free to ask me any questions about the platform :) We also have a bunch of tutorial-cum-demo videos at: https://anvil.works/learn#tutorials

This looks awesome! I am all for automating this stuff. Who do you see as your biggest customers?

This is a really hard question to answer. We've got everyone from scrappy one-person startups building products on Anvil, to larger startups pumping terrifying quantities of money through Anvil apps, to Seriously Large Companies We Can't Name building internal tools with our on-premises version.

Right now we're taking it all as it comes, but we never want to lose our focus on accessibility: It's way too hard to build web apps with today's traditional tools, and we want to make it easier for everyone.

Re: Anvil: full stack web apps built only with Python

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Post by jo909 »

rekshaw wrote: post #35

Looks very impressive. Any plans of offering this a-la-gitlab: paid hosting + support OR free downloadble source but then you're on your own? Main concern is that for something to really become ubiquitous the community should be able to contribute and not just be in the hands of two developers (no offense, I think you did a fantastic job!)

I share this concern. I made a resolution not to tie myself to proprietary services for anything that I couldn't replace/move within a few days. I can move containers, databases and even serverless functions.

Starting from scratch seems to be the only option here, so I would hesitate to even start a small prototype. Which is a shame because I really like your model.

Re: Anvil: full stack web apps built only with Python

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Post by meredydd »

sandGorgon wrote: post #43

Please do jupyter -> webapp. that's a ready market for you.

Funnily enough, we had someone build a web-app out of his Jupyter notebook just two days ago. And it only took him a couple of hours:

https://twitter.com/anvil_works/status/924352019258920960

He just copied and pasted his code from the notebook into an Anvil server function, and it ran first time! It's all just Python, at the end of the day.

Re: Anvil: full stack web apps built only with Python

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Post by chx »

meredydd wrote: post #10

Hi there! Founder here, slightly gobsmacked to see this top of HN. Do feel free to ask me any questions about the platform :) We also have a bunch of tutorial-cum-demo videos at: https://anvil.works/learn#tutorials

Sorry for not digging in more and asking a lazy question but how do you do frontend with Python?

Re: Anvil: full stack web apps built only with Python

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Post by gadders »

amrrs wrote: post #32
gadders wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SilverStream used to do something a bit similar, and compile everything into Servlets. This is pre-2000. http://www2.sys-con.com/itsg/virtualcd/java/archives/0403/be...

Did you mean Microsoft Silverlight?

No, this waaaaay older than that. I'm talking 18 or so years ago.

Re: Anvil: full stack web apps built only with Python

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Post by meredydd »

chx wrote: post #45
meredydd wrote: post #10

Hi there! Founder here, slightly gobsmacked to see this top of HN. Do feel free to ask me any questions about the platform :) We also have a bunch of tutorial-cum-demo videos at: https://anvil.works/learn#tutorials

Sorry for not digging in more and asking a lazy question but how do you do frontend with Python?

We use the Skulpt Python-to-Javascript compiler (I'm a maintainer): http://skulpt.org

You might be interested in my talk from PyCon US this summer, where I talked about the compiler, and how we turn blocking Python code into non-blocking Javascript code:

https://anvil.works/blog/pycon-talk

Re: Anvil: full stack web apps built only with Python

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Post by chx »

meredydd wrote: post #47
chx wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry for not digging in more and asking a lazy question but how do you do frontend with Python?

We use the Skulpt Python-to-Javascript compiler (I'm a maintainer): http://skulpt.org You might be interested in my talk from PyCon US this summer, where I talked about the compiler, and how we turn blocking Python code into non-blocking Javascript code: https://anvil.works/blog/pycon-talk

Real neat.
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