nodejs-flask

Since Flask is WSGI compatible web-framework which can run on top of any WSGI compatible webservers like Gunicorn, mod_wsgi etc (full list), I was thinking why not make node.js server WSGI complient.

This is my small effort, not efficient in any way, but I was trying to see whether I can run a Flask app on node.js server or not.

And it worked! So now any WSGI complient web app like Django will run on this.

I worked this code in Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, node v14.17.0, python 3.8.5 not quite sure about other operating systems. Check PyNode docs if any issue regarding running python code.

# set up virtual environment
$ python -m venv wsgi_python_venv

$ source ./wsgi_python_venv/bin/activate

# install python packages
(wsgi_python_venv)$ pip install -r requirements.txt

# set up pynode
# https://github.com/fridgerator/PyNode#installation

(wsgi_python_venv)$ git clone https://github.com/nodejs/gyp-next

(wsgi_python_venv)$ cd gyp-next

(wsgi_python_venv)/gyp-next$ python setup.py install

(wsgi_python_venv)/gyp-next$ cd ..

(wsgi_python_venv)$ npm init -y

# install node modules
(wsgi_python_venv)$ npm i

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Referances:

1. PEP 333(3)

2. PyNode

3. node http module