https://github.com/flexxui/flexx provides websocket based Python browser GUI connections. John Lunzer pointed it out here: https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/issues/338#issuecomment-289618411
I've been using it in my recent (non-Leo) experiments in this area. Cheers -Terry On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 03:55:21 -0700 (PDT) "Edward K. Ream" <edream...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yesterday I started work in earnest on the leowapp.py plugin. The > gui work is complete for now: the web page contains the outline, body > and log panes and the minibuffer. > > Attempting two-way communication encountered a roadblock. Putting > "require(http)" in a client-side script fails with the console > message: > > ReferenceError: require is not defined > > We can not use a node.js server in the browser, as explained here > <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19059580/client-on-node-uncaught-referenceerror-require-is-not-defined> > . > > With my new insights about sockets, I saw that the proper question is > *not*: > > Can javascript create *servers *in browsers? > > but instead: > > Can javascript create *sockets *in browsers? > > The answer to this question is an emphatic yes > <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1736382/how-to-use-sockets-in-javascript-html>. > > This leads to WebSockets <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket>, > with this tutorial > <https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/websockets/basics/>. > > *Summary* > > WebSockets is perfect for LeoWapp: high performance, two-way > communication, supported by all major browsers. LeoWapp is essential > if Leo's browser gui is to have the fine granularity I envisaged in > the initial design. > > web.py <http://webpy.org/> or requests > <http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/> might replace the aging, > ugly, python-side guts of leowapp.py. (The present code barfs on POST > requests). We shall see. requests is part of the Anaconda distro, > web.py is not. > > Edward > > P. S. Imo, LeoWapp should *require *Python 3. I see no justification > supporting Python 2 in leading-edge web work. Comments in the > documentation for the requests package indicate that there are > serious problems in attempting to do so. > > EKR > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
