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kweb 2.0.1

KLayout Web Viewer demo

Based on https://github.com/klayoutmatthias/canvas2canvas

Install & Run

Through pypi

From a python virtual environment run:

python -m pip install kweb
export KWEB_FILESLOCATION="/path/to/gds/folder" # or the windows equivalent with set
uvicorn --reload kweb.default:app

Advanced Usage

KWeb offers two basic apps:

  • Browser:

    A version that provides a version with a file browser for a folder and the kweb viewer for viewing the gds file in that folder. This can be used by importing the function kweb.browser.get_app and settings the KWEB_FILESLOCATION env variable of passing fileslocation=<Path object for target folder> to the function. Alternatively there is a default one in kweb.default.app that will only look for the env variable.

  • Viewer:

    Only enables the /gds/<filename> endpoints, no root path, i.e. no file browser. Available at kweb.viewer.get_app. This version doesn't provide a listener for the env variable. Use the fileslocation parameter in the function instead.

Development

Clone & Installl

# Clone the repository to your local
git clone https://github.com/gdsfactory/kweb.git
# Install the necessary dependencies
cd /kweb
python -m pip install -e .[dev]

Set a folder for kweb to use when looking for gds files

export KWEB_FILESLOCATION=/path/to/folder/with/gdsfiles

Run

cd src/kweb
uvicorn --reload default:app

Copy the link http://127.0.0.1:8000/gds/file.gds (or http://localhost:8000/gds/file.gds also works) to your browser to open the waveguide example

Contributing

Please make sure you have also installed pre-commit before committing:

python -m pip install pre-commit
pre-commit install