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Reahl – A Python-only web framework

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Re: Reahl – A Python-only web framework

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Post by numbnuts »

mruniverse wrote: post #14
numbnuts wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm three-fourths into the tutorial and I have yet to see a need to write html, css, and js.

https://www.reahl.org/docs/4.0/devmanual/ownwidget.d.html?hi... About half-way down is "Write code for a JavaScript widget"

Heh, good spot. It uses jQuery and jQuery UI.

Re: Reahl – A Python-only web framework

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Post by mruniverse »

eganist wrote: post #18
mruniverse wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.reahl.org/docs/4.0/devmanual/ownwidget.d.html?hi... About half-way down is "Write code for a JavaScript widget"

Yes, for cases when an existing widget doesn't do what you want it to do. You seem pretty steadfast in your commitment that this post misrepresents its content. I believe you should give it a deeper review and reevaluate your understanding.

Just take out the "one language only (Python)" part.

What's wrong with simply "Reahl 4.0: Build web apps in Python".

It's clear and truthful.

Re: Reahl – A Python-only web framework

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Post by mruniverse »

numbnuts wrote: post #16
mruniverse wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The post title is misleading.

What do you think would be a better title? I read "web apps" I think html, css, and js. I wasn't expecting (nor would I want to) to ship Python to the browser.

Leave out the "one language only (Python)" part and it would be fine. Otherwise it's clickbait.

Re: Reahl – A Python-only web framework

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Post by bayesian_horse »

At first glance this looks like an interesting take at pulling a lot of the functionality back to the Python side of the web application.

It's not a webassembly framework, and it doesn't seem to go the "thin client" approach of managing DOM changes and events over a two-way protocol.

Re: Reahl – A Python-only web framework

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Post by bayesian_horse »

eganist wrote: post #10
mruniverse wrote: post #7

"one language only" if you don't count the javascript, html and css.

> "one language only" if you don't count the javascript, html and css. My hunch is that you strove for making the First Comment considering that the point of this project is exactly what you said it isn't. https://www.reahl.org/layout , for instance, talks about how styling works. Taking this further, here's a comment from one of the maintainers on the relevant Google Group: > Hello. > We want casual users of Reahl t…

"One language only" is a marketing slogan. It's slightly misleading, since it doesn't look like you can implement meaningful applications in 100% Python or get away with zero knowledge of HTML and JS.

But it may be close, like you can spend 90% of your development time on Python, and write JS components in the remaining 10%.

Re: Reahl – A Python-only web framework

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Post by giancarlostoro »

antoncohen wrote: post #17

Be careful. This is licensed under the AGPL, which basically makes it unusable. Or a commercial license can be purchased.

I'm surprised GitHub doesn't show this on the repository it just says "View License" but I guess they don't allow using AGPL when creating a repository.

Re: Reahl – A Python-only web framework

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Post by giancarlostoro »

nine_k wrote: post #6

Does APL here mean you can only use it ti build APL-licensed server code? Apparently it should be the case.

AGPL means you have to share any code you write using this framework. It makes no sense to me why a library would be AGPL licensed, LGPL is what I expect libraries to be, of course I'm not sure how the LGPL applies to Python, but I'm usually all in for MIT License.
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