Dazzler

Dazzler is a Python async UI/Web framework built with aiohttp and react. Create dazzling fast pages with a layout of Python components and bindings to update from the backend.

Install

Install with pip: $ pip install dazzler

Features

• Fast WebSocket based communication, deliver updates in realtime to thousands of connected clients at once.
• Lightweight bundles for fast initial page load.
• Support for third party integrations via middlewares.
• Session & authentication systems.
• No HTML/CSS/JS knowledge required, write everything with Python.
• Multi-page based.
• Hot reload.
• Tons of components.
• Tie & Transform API to perform updates on the client side.
• Build desktop applications with Electron.

Basic example

Create a page with a layout and assign bindings to save & load a visitor name with the session system. The button to save the visitor name is disabled if no input value via tie & transform.

from dazzler import Dazzler
from dazzler.system import Page, BindingContext, transforms as t
from dazzler.components import core

app = Dazzler(__name__)
page = Page(
    __name__,
    core.Container([
        core.Html('H2', 'My dazzler page'),
        core.Container('Please enter a name', identity='visitor-name'),
        core.Input(value='', identity='input'),
        core.Button('Save name', identity='save-btn', disabled=True),
    ], identity='layout', id='layout'),
    title='My Page',
    url='/'
)

# UI updates via tie & transforms
page.tie('value@input', 'disabled@save-btn').transform(
    t.Length().t(t.Lesser(1))
)


# Bindings executes on the server via websockets.
@page.bind('clicks@save-btn')
async def on_click(context: BindingContext):
    # Save the visitor name via session system
    name = await context.get_aspect('input', 'value')
    await context.session.set('visitor', name)
    await context.set_aspect(
        'visitor-name', children=f'Saved {name}'
    )


# Aspects defined on the layout trigger on initial render and
# allows to insert initial data.
@page.bind('id@layout')
async def on_layout(context: BindingContext):
    visitor = await context.session.get('visitor')
    if visitor:
        await context.set_aspect(
            'visitor-name', children=f'Welcome back {visitor}!'
        )


app.add_page(page)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.start()

Documentation

Full documentation hosted on readthedocs.

Get help for the command line tools: $ dazzler --help