I had some time off last week so I built a little tool I've been planning on using for a while now.
Thought I'd just comment on my motivations for building this.
I bought a little chromebook tablet to take on holidays. I've been enjoying the experience of using a remote IDE to code on my personal server.
I thought it would be neat if I could quickly make myself GUIs for other utilities on my remote server that get rendered on my chromebook. Doing this like being able to run bash scripts remotely.
I start utility scripts with this tool and then just use ssh port forwarding to view it locally.
The fun bit is the application itself is then just written in python.
There are some similar alternatives[1] but I wanted to be able to write GUI elements like ImGUI so I decided to build my own tool in the end.
I just wrote it in python because that's what I've been using at work lately.
Flutter would be perfect if it produced web applications that were more widely adopted.
It’s very much early days though. I didn’t want to go near accessibility until I had standardised the rendering model somewhat.
It also waits to be seen if anyone actually wants to use this besides me.
It keeps running your render method and dynamically updates your client.
The first example documents this a bit better: https://gitlab.com/BenWiser/python-live-gui/-/blob/main/exam...
