Feature request: generalize dash into python front end to React

[gigatexal]

Saw this project on hacker news and was immediately intrigued. What would be really, really cool would be a more generalized project that acts as a front end to react such that we could write python and render react in flask. If such a project already exists, my apologies.

[chriddyp]

Thanks for your interest @gigatexal !

if we could write python and render react in flask.

Could you explain what you mean a little bit more here? Do you mean server-side rendering?

Here are some more resources about how Dash works with React right now:

• Dash is already an interface to React - it renders the app in React and all of the components are React based components. For more high-level information, see the announcement letter
• The front-end for React is generalized and the code is in this repository here: https://github.com/plotly/dash-renderer.
• You can write your own React components and generate a python interface to this components through Dash's plugin system: https://plot.ly/dash/plugins

[gigatexal]

I think what you described is what I am looking for. I think what I was seeking was outside of the scope of the project: write python (never touch jsx) and have my python rendered as html via react. Something along the lines of a < u l > with n number of < l i > items could be a python for loop maybe. I know this example is trivial but I hope it gets the point across. Nevertheless, I think the Dash-Renderer and the plugin system should suffice for me to get started.