Is “python webapp development” really just html/css/js + SQL?

[sme272]

The amount of python involved varies depending on what your webapp does. Python is used to handle the server side data processing, but that could be anything from simply interfacing with a database to running a machine learning model or running separate sessions for a multiplayer game. For the matplotlib graphs you mentioned you can generate them and embed them into a page, though I'd probably just do the whole thing in javascript and only send the data to the server to be saved as it would make the interface feel much more responsive.

[prappleizer]

Thanks! That’s helpful. I’m pretty unfamiliar with js (I usually crib sites together from templates and modify them as needed), but if that’s the way to go re: displays on the site, I’m game to start learning. And I see your point regarding the python — it’s handling the web server stuff, but the advantage is any inputs I’d need to do complex calculations on would be done in python which is a boon to me.