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by meredydd 9y ago
Urk! Albert-Jan is busily trying to wake someone up and get the site back up. Meanwhile: Archive link: http://archive.is/leOnD GitHub: https://github.com/skulpt/skulpt
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by meredydd 9y ago
They're quotes from each respective project's homepage :)
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by meredydd 9y ago
Thank-you! It's definitely a team effort, including several educators as well as the teams from Trinket and Anvil (where I'm a cofounder). A particular shout-out for Albert-Jan Nijburg, who does some contracting for Trinket but do
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by meredydd 9y ago
I think it's mostly a difference in approach. Brython sets out to "replace Javascript with Python" as the language of scripting the Web. This means it has custom bindings to the browser API, supports writing Brython in <sc
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by meredydd 9y ago
Hi there! One of the Skulpt maintainers here. (Also founder of Anvil - https://anvil.works . Never thought I'd have two projects on the front page at once!) Feel free to ask any questions about the gory internals and how it
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by meredydd 9y ago
Thanks! Our infrastructure is all on AWS and designed to scale horizontally, so we're pretty confident we can handle whatever traffic you throw at your app. (Ask about our dedicated-resource hosting plans!) As for examples, it's a
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by meredydd 9y ago
Their backend is partially inside, partially outside Anvil (eg I believe the campaign management backend runs in our hosted server modules, but the compute-intensive machine learning is offloaded). And it's all under their control -
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by meredydd 9y ago
As a rule, I'm not a fan of the "Eject button" pattern. It's an admission of defeat. It says, "because you needed one advanced feature, I am now dumping you into the Wild West I was previously protecting you from. G
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by meredydd 9y ago
Thank you! When the PyCon UK lightning talks go up on YouTube, you'll be able to see my talk from last night about how we built that autocompleter. Bottom line: Traditional web dev has starved us of decent tool support. Give us even a
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by meredydd 9y ago
I can't really talk about most of them, but I described one example down here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15589020
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by meredydd 9y ago
That I can talk about publicly? Probably https://lightningai.com/ . Their control panel drives companies' entire online marketing operation - creative, targeting, performance, and more - across multiple advertising serv
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by meredydd 9y ago
We do exactly that! ( https://anvil.works/blog/anvil-on-site ) Installing and running it is typically a single 'docker-compose' command. If you're interested in this option, please do drop us an email at
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by meredydd 9y ago
I'd take the other side of that bet ;) Anvil's built in "Users" service is incredibly simple and un-magical (user records are just database rows, and you can reimplement vanilla password login in four lines). This make
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by meredydd 9y ago
Yes, it can! Check out the "Secure download portal" example app at https://anvil.works/learn#examples - it's got group-based access control. (Nothing magic - it's just a database. Even user records are j
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by meredydd 9y ago
Yes, we do - depends on number of licences, country, and institution. Drop us a line at education@anvil.works.
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by meredydd 9y ago
> would be interested in knowing if I can build UIs via code alone Yes you can! Check out all the code examples in: https://anvil.works/doc#forms
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by meredydd 9y ago
Are you looking for this? https://anvil.works/blog/multi-user-apps Multi-tenant/single-DB is a pretty common and straightforward pattern with a lot of support in Anvil (eg restricted views, as described in the vid
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by meredydd 9y ago
Hello! I don't recognise your username, but might recognise your face. Hope you enjoyed the con :)
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by meredydd 9y ago
Yes, we do! Check out the Uplink: https://anvil.works/blog/uplink It's a library you `pip install`, which lets you connect Python code running anywhere in the world to your Anvil app. Everything you can do from An
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by meredydd 9y ago
We already do! Paid users can choose "Assets" in the app browser and edit the HTML/CSS/etc. (You can also check the app out with Git and edit them there.) We'll also be adding more built-in themes before long :)
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by meredydd 9y ago
Yes! See our first walkthrough video, which includes a screenshot of the (unmodified!) sample app on an iPhone. ( https://anvil.works/learn ) You can control which columns do and don't collapse on mobile or tablets. See
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by meredydd 9y ago
That's exactly what you can do! If you open up a Server Module, you'll see a drop-down in the top-right. That will allow you to select a Python 3.6 runtime. The client-side code is Python 2 only for now, but we're already upg
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by meredydd 9y ago
Compiling Python to Javascript is always going to be incomplete. (For example, it doesn't make much sense to open() a file from the browser!) However, we run full CPython (2.7 and 3.6) on the server, so any language feature you like is
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by meredydd 9y ago
Check out my talk on the Skulpt compiler from PyCon US this summer: https://anvil.works/blog/pycon-talk Skulpt has a separate compiler stage that compiles Python to JS, and a runtime library. There's no need to ev
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by meredydd 9y ago
I'd dispute that! There are much larger applications built on Anvil; it's just hard to build a two-week project for a demo video, and harder still to build a two-month one ;) We're starting to post some larger examples (check
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by meredydd 9y ago
Absolutely - please ask about our Enterprise plans ;) That said, even with the standard plans you can plug into your own Postgres database from server code (just `import psycopg` - it's only Python, after all). And using the Uplink, yo
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by meredydd 9y ago
We use the Skulpt Python-to-Javascript compiler (I'm a maintainer): http://skulpt.org You might be interested in my talk from PyCon US this summer, where I talked about the compiler, and how we turn blocking Python code int
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by meredydd 9y ago
Funnily enough, we had someone build a web-app out of his Jupyter notebook just two days ago. And it only took him a couple of hours: https://twitter.com/anvil_works/status/924352019258920960 He just copied and pa
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by meredydd 9y ago
This is a really hard question to answer. We've got everyone from scrappy one-person startups building products on Anvil, to larger startups pumping terrifying quantities of money through Anvil apps, to Seriously Large Companies We Can
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by meredydd 9y ago
Honestly, we would absolutely love to open-source it! The issue is that we're a bootstrapped start-up, and it's rather difficult to make open source pay the bills, even if it becomes huge (see, eg, Docker's troubles). By char

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