Bundle with server side languages

[flip111]

neutralinojs comes with a C++ server. It's not clear to me what exactly is the server side doing. But i was wondering if it's possible to bundle neutralinojs with languages such as php, ruby, python and haskell and possibly some databases or other tools.

With electron i saw a view examples around such as this one https://codetalk.io/posts/2016-05-11-using-electron-with-haskell.html

[shalithasuranga]

c++ server of neutralinojs is handling all backend calls such as filesystem access. terminal access etc (See docs for more).

The article you mentioned explains how electron app connects with a server which is written with Haskell. Also, that task is possible with neutralinojs too. So you can use os.runCommand to start the server and maybe JQuery to communicate with the server.

[flip111]

Aah that's pretty great. Would be good to put that in a FAQ of some sorts :)

To which server would jQuery have to connect to? Some port on localhost? What if there are problems with the server like port already being in use?

[shalithasuranga]

Yeah! this can be added to documentation. thanks!

Neutralino usually uses a random port for its server. So no need to know about that :) . But in this case there is another custom server. So, you can decide which port you are going to use

[telamon]

@shalithasuranga Actually i recently tried the custom server approach. But i always ended up with a network error when i tried to communicate with my custom local backend, thus I assumed that it was not possible to make arbitrary requests.

But reading this issue maybe my assumptions are wrong? I couldn't find any tests or proof anywhere that this approach is supposed to work.

[kasvith]

This can be done for sure, we can explicitly disable default API server and allow connecting to any backend as mentioned in the electron article

[telamon]

@kasvith I can confirm that it works, the connection error i had was my own fault due to having once again accidentally confused which server should serve up the CORS header. Once a valid CORS header was added to my custom backend everything worked gloriously.

[shalithasuranga]

Hey.. I am closing this issue because the question has been answered already..