Perhaps my long search for a convenient way to code database frontends that work locally ("desktop app") but leverage the power of a browser as a GUI has come to a successful point. This point involves:
The only tricks making Bottle and py2app work well together were
The only tricks making Bottle and py2app work well together were
- You need to explicitly list the template files when calling py2app, otherwise they don't get included in Resources
- I had to add a url route (which I called /quit) that called os._exit() to shut down the server (otherwise done using CTRL-C). just exit() and even SIGINT did not work. This is a bit extreme, but I think safe in this usage.
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