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Alin Climente
Alin Climente

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Desktop apps with Django without Electronjs

Not only JS folks can reuse web tehnologies for desktop applications we can do it too. If you want to create a nice gui and you want to reuse your web tech knowledge try flaskwebgui.

First, install it:

pip install flaskwebgui
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Next to manage.py file create a gui.py file where you need to import application from project's wsgi.py file.

├── project_name
│   ├── asgi.py
│   ├── settings.py
│   ├── urls.py
│   └── wsgi.py
├── gui.py # this 
├── manage.py
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#gui.py

from flaskwebgui import FlaskUI
from project_name.wsgi import application

FlaskUI(application).run()

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Next start the application with:

python gui.py  
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Django will be served by waitress.

Also, you can use any frontend framework you like + any python web framework you like, just pass a function which starts the server to start_server parameter.

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