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Disclaimer: this is still in beta, if not in alpha
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.
RapydFramework needs for these dependencies to be installed manually:
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"
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
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
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!