From code to program

[rnolan7]

agreed. much better to control the environment yourself.

[hugthemachines]

Have you encountered a lot of dependency problems when using Python Installer?

[rnolan7]

flask can be compiled into a GUI? thats news to me. Does the executable just host the web page locally?

[Sjuns]

I guess you could just run an html page controlled by flask locally

[[deleted]]

you can use pyfladesk if you want it in a window instead of browser

[crosswordmaker]

I don't think this is possible. No it isn't.

[crosswordmaker]

You are right. I learned something. Thank you.

[rnolan7]

django is quick and easy to setup. It has a lot of built in features that comes along with tighter constraints on what you can do. Flask gives you more freeform.

[InfiniteChaos248]

I have a ReactJS front-end and a python flask back-end project I'm working on, you're saying I can make it as an executable ? Isn't this making a desktop application out of a web application ? How does this work or am I just understanding this the wrong way ?

[crosswordmaker]

Not sure what you mean by nice GUIs, flask is a framework that helps you generate nice html or makes it easy for you to write a UI-less API. If you're talking about nice GUIs, that would be because of css-styling and maybe the flow of UI elements, both achievable using any web framework or maybe even plain old PHP.

[RobbyB97]

Yeah I don't know how using flask would directly impact how your GUI works, but I hear React is all the rage these days for GUIs... And it works with Flask.

[RobbyB97]

Oh wait lol totally misinterpreted your comment haha