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Alin Climente
Alin Climente

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Use FastAPI to create a desktop application (no Electronjs)

Not only JS folks can do it we can do it too!

First, install this library:

pip install flaskwebgui
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Next add the following code in a main.py file:

#main.py

from fastapi import FastAPI
from flaskwebgui import FlaskUI # import FlaskUI

app = FastAPI()
ui = FlaskUI(app) # feed app and parameters

@app.get("/")
def read_root():
    return {"message": "Works with FastAPI!"}

if __name__ == "__main__":
    ui.run()

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Alternatively, next to main.py create a file called gui.py and add the following contents:

#gui.py

from flaskwebgui import FlaskUI
from main import app

FlaskUI(app, width=600, height=500).run()
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Next start the application with:

python main.py 
#or
python gui.py #in case you created gui.py 
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Fastapi will be served by uvicorn.

And that's all!

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Andy Bulka

I'm getting the error AttributeError: 'FastAPI' object has no attribute 'after_request' whether I run python main.py or python gui.py.

I have flaskwebgui, flask and fastapi installed ok.

Had to change the startup in both files to FlaskUI(app, start_server='fastapi', width=600, height=500).run()