[Tutor] Graphical/web program

[Alan Gauld]

On 13/01/18 05:15, Pat Martin wrote:

> I was thinking of turning this into a web app (one that is just run on my
> local machine)  something like have a form with text box, checkbox and
> radio buttons for the options/flags.
> 
> My question is, is something like that practical? Will I be able to write
> to a local file (home/user/.ssh/config) with say a flask app? I don't know
> flask but am willing to learn it and thought this might be a good program
> for it.

It is definitely doable and as a learning experience on web apps its a
good starter project. You will need to run a web server on your machine,
but Flask provides a basic server that will suffice. It can write to a
file or a database.

Looking beyond the web aspect, if its just for your local machine use
then a desktop GUI might be a more suitable mechanism than a web page,
it would be lighter weight and offer more design features. But if you
want to learn Flask then this is a good starting point.


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