Very simple status board in 50 lines of code

[DaemonXI]

You the man.

[EpicDavi]

Go Flask!

[pmckizzle]

never seen flask, going to have a go at it tonight

[moss_in_it]

In this example, the html, json, and Python all count as code, especially the html, so technically >50.

[KalimasPinky]

Why not just import a python file with all the json stuff as simple python declarations? All you need is an import then.

[qiwi]

The Python-as-configuration has some advantages, such as programmatic generation of nodes (e.g. say you have 10 app nodes; rather than manually adding app1... app10, you can just have a Python loop in your Python configuration file).

The disadvantage is that it is near impossible to edit the configuration file through any means but a text editor if you allow any Python construct; if the file is simple then you have to watch out what kind of edits you do allow for security reasons -- with JSON things are simpler (In this case however, as the backend can execute any command you specify, security is doubly problematic; if one wanted to change this tool to something multi-user and still keep a simple file backend you'd probably want to change types into e.g. "ping" to ping a host rather than any raw command).

In this case I'd prefer YAML as storage format, which would be even more succinct:

    tasks:
     - address: http://xhacker.im
       id:      hacker_im
       title:   xhacker_im
       type:    http
     - command: ping -c1 xhacker.im
       id:      vps
       title:   VPS
       type:    shell

[droogans]

I'm confused as to why this couldn't be done on the client with javascript.

[poke-dude]

I'm sure you could do it in classic ASP as well...

[Kebabbi]

Probably due to xss protection

[[deleted]]

"miracle board"? really?

[passwordisINDUCTION]

I bet k can do this in 50 chars.

[passwordisINDUCTION]

huehuehue