Pglet – Web UI framework for back end developers

https://github.com/pglet/pglet

by d4rkp4ttern • 5 years ago

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Fire-Dragon-DoL• 5 years ago

I initially interpreted this as pg (postgres) let. Still interesting, but slightly disappointed

jhgb2• 5 years ago

Sounded lispy to me, so I thought it was Paul-Graham-let. ;)

_ea1k• 5 years ago

Yeah, I kept searching for how this used postgres and ultimately was disappointed. What an odd name.

neilparikh• 5 years ago

Similar framework for Haskell: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/threepenny-gui

philosopher12342• 5 years ago

I wish there was a Go client. Sad that the server is Go but they dont have any released Go bindings.

jamil72• 5 years ago

Looks like there's a Go client here https://github.com/pglet/pglet-go

philosopher12342• 5 years ago

Just looked through the source, that is not a client! There is only a constructor to create a "Page" but the page has no methods, and there is nothing else exported.

dcgudeman• 5 years ago

Terrible choice for a license. I never go near AGPL.

_def• 5 years ago

Why?

skinkestek2• 5 years ago

Because most of us aren’t in a position where we can give away our code.

There is a minefield regarding using AGPL servers and I prefer working around it.

If I build AGPL code into my code or vice versa however it becomes very clear as far as I cam see: I have to provide a download link to the entire product.

For many of us that is not an option: My clients would of course reject that, and of course I would not use it for my own for-profit projects either.

frou_dh• 5 years ago

Presumably someone who chooses AGPL intentionally wants to exclude people who "won't go near AGPL", in which case this can't be a terrible choice, by construction.

shrimpx• 5 years ago

I tried it on a hello world example and was surprised to see that when I run `python test.py` it opens the app at a https://console.pglet.io URL -- it seems to copy my code into the cloud when I run it.

Tracnac• 5 years ago

You need to run a local server via the pglet binary, and add local=True to pglet.app

szszrk2• 5 years ago

That's an odd default to send it to the Internet...

JoyrexJ9• 5 years ago

The tortured ghost of CGI has entered the chat.

Seriously though, for small web apps, or even light REST API this could be useful

forgotmypw17• 5 years ago

CGI is still going strong, supported by more Web servers than most things.

v4d1mv• 5 years ago

Similar framework for Java: https://github.com/vadimv/rsp

marmaduke• 5 years ago

Wt is a similar idea for C++/Java https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt/ though seemingly more complete.

_448• 5 years ago

Looking at the Pglet docs, I don't think it is similar to Wt.

pqyzwbq• 5 years ago

PyWebIO seems similar: https://github.com/pywebio/PyWebIO, it can turns python command line script into web with only very small change.

And PySimpleGUI mainly for Desktop: https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI

jhgb2• 5 years ago

So this is basically a web version of Gtk-server? One then wonders if this couldn't have Gtk-server's interface. Or, vice versa, if Pglet interface couldn't be added to Gtk-server.

kwhitefoot• 5 years ago

Why isn't it just called Piglet?

Chris2048• 5 years ago

already exists: https://ollycope.com/software/piglet-templates/latest/

also this one is very popular too: http://pyglet.org/

I would personally avoid the current name as it sounds phonetically the same as the above.

hungryforcodes• 5 years ago

Also "pg" could be short for page -- as in PgUp or PgDown. So it's kind of cute in a sense.

est• 5 years ago

Show me a demo of double binding data table with async loading, filters, sorters and groupers then we'll talk.

woodrowbarlow• 5 years ago

i'm convinced two-way binding is an anti-feature in reactive UI. bindings should flow one way from model to view, and view changes should be reflected back to the model via events.

replwoacause• 5 years ago

Looks really nice but sadly there aren't many PowerShell examples. I will stick to Universal Dashboard until they can provide some examples of this working with PowerShell.

majkinetor• 5 years ago

For PowerShell at least, this one is the best:

https://github.com/Badgerati/Pode

floatingleaf• 5 years ago

https://github.com/codevin/script-manager

Similar attempt...

appveyor• 5 years ago

Oh, no, I've missed my HN moment! :) Anyway, hope it's not too late to say hi and answer some questions.

Hi, I'm Feodor - the author of Pglet. The project is still in "alpha" and there is still a lot of experimenting around default modes and API will probably have some breaking changes going forward.

Thank you for the constructive feedback you guys gave here!

Re: licensing - Only Pglet Server is under AGPL at the moment, multi-language client libraries which are embedded in your app are MIT. Selection of AGPL is not final and was mostly influenced by recent fear/trend of big co incorporating your service into their cloud offerings.

Re: remote mode by default - your app code is not being uploaded to console.pglet.io, but it's UI is "streamed" there only. However, I agree this looks scary for the initial experience - will roll it back to "local" mode by default with explicit "publish" option.

Better docs, more examples and other languages support (Go, Rust, Deno) are coming later this year. Stay tuned!

Pglet – Web UI framework for back end developers

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