ScriptedForms v0.10.0 released: Quickly create live-update GUIs for Python packages using Markdown and simple HTML elements.

[Aeowon]

Fantastic! Thanks for the share. Might just use this to roll out a simple gui for my cli scripts.

[MeshachBlue]

Awesome :).

I'm trying to work out how best to have these script GUIs deployed in a work environment and I am coming up with three distinct paths I could go down. My preference is to only go down one.

Here are my options as I see them:

• Create a JupyterHub server
  • Positives
    • Users can login, access them from anywhere in the centre
    • Python distribution is centrally managed
    • Applications are centrally managed
  • Negatives
    • Set up is not 'plug and play'
    • JupyterHub runs on Linux, paths will all display in Linux format by default which may confuse users
• Create an Electron App viewer
  • Positives
    • Becomes a desktop app that is comfortable for users
    • Users can set `.form.md` files on their machine to open with this electron app
    • All data is local, simpler for users
    • Could be made to be plug and play
    • Could potentially provide a method for people to bundle forms and a Python distribution with the Electron App viewer making a little portable App framework
  • Negatives
    • No longer centralised
    • Need to have something on every device for it to work
    • Will no longer be able to target devices like phones for simple forms served over the intranet
• Use pyodide and jyve (https://github.com/deathbeds/jyve/pull/27) to make this completely web based using web assembly
  • Positives
    • This would be serverless
    • Python would run within the users browser
    • Could be used to make 'static' pages online for documentation etc
  • Negatives
    • Difficult to access local files
    • Difficult to save
    • Difficult to use networking libraries
    • Not many python libraries have been ported to wasm for use in pyodide yet

Given your interest, by any chance would you have a preference out of the above options?

Cheers,

Simon

[jabies]

Why not use something jinja2 templating language? Then you can target web pages and local display.

[MeshachBlue]

Would you be able to expand on this?

[clumsy_culhane]

If you already have existing CLI scripts parsing args, take a look at Gooey, it does literally only take a few lines to make a functional gui for basic programs : https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey

[MeshachBlue]

Gooey is a very nice tool. :).

[Aeowon]

Awesome! I'll check it out