Anvil

What it does

Was looking for the fastest way to deploy a Python script and API with a fairly simple UI and came across Anvil. No JS needed) - Web-based IDE - Create your UI with drag and drop - Run Python on the server - Inbuilt postgres db

Anvil is a free Python-based drag-and-drop web app builder

Build rapidly with AI. Generate code you understand. All on a platform you can trust. Beautiful. Explicit. Simple. Code with Python and use all your favorite libraries. Use your favourite AI agent directly within the Anvil Editor. Generate code you can actually understand. Edit your apps to create exactly what you want. Every single aspect of your app, driven in a single framework: code, databases, user management, deployment - all in Python, all in Anvil. Anvil is a marvellous example of a tool that gets all the tedious, repetitive, boilerplate activities out of the way so you can concentrate on writing powerful applications; which you can deploy with a single click. Go from idea to…from anvil.works

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