a simple but fully featured example of how to use tornado, asyncio and websocket together to build an application delegating the frontend UI to a browser, local or remote, without the limits of the http dialog.

TAGS: tornado asyncio websocket

1. create a virtualenv

$ export VIRTENV_ROOT=desired-virtenv_root-path
$ mkdir ${VIRTENV_ROOT}
$ virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 ${VIRTENV_ROOT}

2. clone this project in ${PROJECT_ROOT}

$ git clone [email protected]:giovanni-angeli/pyjamapeople.git

3. build Install in edit mode:

$ . ${VIRTENV_ROOT}/bin/activate
$ cd ${PROJECT_ROOT}               
$ pip install -e ./

4. Run:

$ (. ${VIRTENV_ROOT}/bin/activate ; pyjamapeople &)
$ chromium http://127.0.0.1:8000/ &
$ firefox http://127.0.0.1:8000/ &

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