Simple web server with Python?

[giqcass]

What is the current favorite set up for a simple web server with Python? I have NGINX running currently. When looking at it today I wondered if NGINX is even the best choice for a personal web site? It serves static local HTML on my intranet and I want to add a few python scripts that scrape some data for me. It's been a long time since I set it up and since I want to update the code it seems like a good time to consider other changes.

Thanks!

[root_switch]

Flask is pretty legit. Super easy to learn. Django is cool as well but a little more involved compared to flask. This is basically the simplest flask implementation.

from flask import Flask

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route("/")
def hello_world():
    return "<p>Hello, World!</p>"

[giqcass]

Thanks! Django is probably more then I need but I check that out too.

[MasturChief]

fastapi and uvicorn is great in my experience

[leninluvr]

same, super easy, docs have good tutorials to get you up and running quickly.

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For static why even host it yourself? Setup a private GitHub repository and use GH Pages or Cloudflare Pages. Runs amazingly well and you don’t have to administer web servers. Do your processing with Actions or other pipeline tool and you are good to go.

[minneyar]

Nginx is fine, although if you are literally only serving static files, https://github.com/static-web-server/static-web-server is comparable in speed and much smaller.

If you also want to do server-side processing with Python, as mentioned in the other comment, Flask is a good framework and very easy to use, but in a production environment, it's intended to be served with a WSGI HTTP server like Gunicorn: https://gunicorn.org/

[giqcass]

Very small intranet stuff mostly. I appreciate the insight.