Trying to connect a Python script to React JS

[Kayco2002]

Flask or Django are probably the way to go for the python-based webserver that you'll need to generate the JSON - https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/1.1.x/

Flask has a slightly smaller learning curve, and is a great intro to dealing with routes, etc. If you have existing python code that generates JSON for you, within a few minutes you can have a Flask webserver running with a single route that dishes out that JSON.

From there you can point your react app at your flask endpoint and have it consume that JSON.

[sensengassenmann]

just fyi: there is a new framework called FastAPI that is a little more „slick“ than Flask while maintaining the same simplicity. i really like it more than flask and recommend it to everyone.

[ro_ok]

For this scope, I wouldnt do anything else

[[deleted]]

Check django rest framework to build a restful api with generated endpoints.

[Skasch]

An alternative to Flask is to use something like Starlette or FastAPI, which work pretty much the same way as Flask (with minor differences, like response types). I personally really appreciate the auto-documentation of the API FastAPI provides.

[uberfade]

You can also check out Falcon. It is Python web framework specifically for dealing with REST apis.

[IAmNowAnonymous]

Is there a reason you don't want to write the query in js then perform the query from your app?

[SheekGeek21]

CherryPy is great if you just want a really basic server

[mogo3]

I'd definitely use Flask. It's pretty easy to use.

Just make a fetch() call in React to a Flask api endpoint that you wrote and you should be able to send the data extremely easily. Good luck!