An ill-advised library for rapidly prototyping python GUI applications in Javascript + HTML.
(Metaclasses and introspection are usually the answer!)
- https://github.com/zbanks/beetle
python test.pyand navigate to http://localhost:8080/static/index.html
Grassroots is intended to make it easy to expose your Python objects in Javascript. It automatically builds a REST interface around your Python classes. This interface is then discovered by the client-side Javascript to build Backbone models to wrap the REST interface, giving you nearly-transparent access to the Python objects.
grassroots.py
Root is a singleton object that manages the web server. It is run as a WSGI app.
Classes can subclass Blade to be exposed over the REST interface.
Properties of blades are only exposed if they are subclasses of Field.
Functions can be turned into fields with the @CallableField decorator.
JSONField automatically serializes/deserializes between Python and Javascript objects.
grass.js
A singleton of the Root object is exposed as root. root.Collections contains all the types of classes (blades) exposed over the REST API.
In general, models extracted from root behave like normal Backbone models. They have an additional .call() method which provides syntactic sugar for calling methods in Python-land.
It goes without saying that this project does not attempt to enforce any form of security: it is only designed for locally running apps (i.e. prototyping).