Disclaimer: this is still in beta, if not in alpha

RapydFramework, the easy way for client development

RapydFramework is an easy way to develop web apps using your Python skills. At his core, however, it's just a way to generate and compile projects that use RapydML, RapydScript and Sass (all technologies that have a heavily inspired or heavily similar syntax to Python). That allows you to make cross-platform clients by just learning an easy language and little more.

Installation

RapydFramework needs for these dependencies to be installed manually:

• Python (with pip)
• NodeJS
• Sass
• GIT

RapydFramework for now is only for Windows. I have to confess that I don't have high incentives to make a Linux version (or worse, a Mac), so forking is encouraged. To install or update the package, just paste this command in the command prompt:

powershell -command "Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing https://raw.githubusercontent.com/savethekiddes/rapydframework/main/setup.py -OutFile setup.py; python setup.py"

About PATH

Some installers of Node.js don't add the "npm" folder to PATH. This is a problem, because then RapydScript-ng (the Python-like implementation of JavaScript) will not work. If rapydscript.py returns a FileNotFoundError when trying to compile RapydScript, then run this in a command prompt as administrator::

setx PATH "%PATH%;%APPDATA%/npm"

You might also to consider to add RapydFramework to PATH to avoid always writing the absolute PATH:

setx PATH "%PATH%;C:/rapydframework"

If you do this, to call RapydScript you'll use:

rapydframework

Instead of:

C:/rapydframework/rapydframework.exe

Usage

To get started, you can just type the following command:

C:/rapydframework/rapydframework.exe -h

The output will be the following:

RapydFramework, the easy way for client development
usage: RapydFramework.exe [-h] [-i | -c | -r] [--tailwind] [-t]

options:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -i, --init     creates a new project
  -c, --compile  compiles a project
  -r, --run      starts a Flask dev server
  --tailwind     adds Tailwind support, to be used with the --init argument
  -t, --test     tests the code for errors, to be used with the --compile argument

Credits

The credits of course go to:

• atsepkov, for making the original RapydML and RapydScript
• kovidgoyal, for forking RapydScript and make it live again
• The SASS's developers, for making easier writing CSS

Awesome work, thanks to all of you!