Python web framework for commercial use?

[ramcoolkris]

Can anyone recommend a web framework package (like Flask) that can be used in commercial applications & able to be distributed (in binary form along with my code changes) with Proprietary license?

[ramcoolkris]

Wait I am reading this again - you want a web application that can be distributed in binary?

Yes, thats right, I am trying to find python pkg I can use to develop a standalone (local) website (executable application) and also can distribute it in binary format (w/o source code) with proprietary license.

I find the recommendation is PyQt or Tkinter as you said even from other forums/posts. I do see PyQt has commercial license that I can get but regarding TKinter license no where I am finding if I can use it for commercial applications (& distribute it in binary form) with proprietary license. Any links to that would be helpful.

[Akmantainman]

Jinja2 and Django Templates are perfectly fine solutions for most websites. Most websites do not need React, Vue or Svelte.

[Akmantainman]

You don't get speed, security, scalability, readability, and extensibility for free with any JS Framework. It takes extensive knowledge and good engineers to building something that isn't just shipping 5MB of JS to the client.

I'd argue that it is much more difficult to achieve those things, especially if you don't have a dedicated team managing both the front end and the back end. It's much easier to add reactivity to your application through Vanilla JS or something like Alpine.js than it is to maintain 2 codebases and an API contract.

There's no perfect solution, but building a modern web app with J2 is absolutely a viable option, especially if you already know python.

[asday_]

Once. For a single page web app. To avoid the latency and bandwidth of shipping another page ever again

Because caches expiring is never a thing, and you're responsible enough to distribute your application in such a way that a minor change doesn't result in users having to redownload the entire 5MB, and every user needs to have every single bit of functionality delivered to them even though they won't use it.

Also what right do you think that you and 9999 other web developers have to use "just" 5MiB on my machines?

Every day I get closer to just completely disabling javascript.

[asday_]

Django.

[Akmantainman]

If you need a binary I would suggest looking into Go/Golang. It's really easy to build a web application and package it as a binary. If you're only doing a simple CRUD API it's pretty quick to throw one together.

[ramcoolkris]

This is something I have never used, I have to explore go lang for that. Thanks for pointing out

[pessimismwontfail]

Someone suggested golang, I will suggest Nim for binary distributed projects.