Callue - A Preprocessor of Sorts

Callue is a preprocessor for Bottle.py, designed because I do not need a whole NGINX server for every tiny project I do, so this provides an exceedingly simple way to easily write an HTTP server.

Installation

pip install callue what else do i put here?

Get Started

import callue

callue.setup(homepage='example_folder/index.html')

@callue.route('/test')
def test():
  return 'test'

callue.run()

In this example, we're setting the homepage to a file in a directory named example_folder in the frontend folder (which you can also customize with the frontend= argument of the setup function. Then, we proceed to manually create a route to /test. Callue by default will serve files statically that are in the frontend folder.

.routemap

This file exists in the frontend folder, and makes it easier to write custom routes Syntax:

# This is a comment
/ ->
  renders /example_folder/example.html
  where placeholder is {'hello'}
  and placeholder_2 is {1+1};

/static_file ->
  serves /example_folder/static.html;

• Comments are written with #
• Serve static files at a route with serves
• Serve templates at a route with renders
• Define template parameters with where [param1] is [value] and [param2] is [value2] etc.
• Before calling setup(), if you add values to the callue.routemap dictionary, they will be accessible in .routemap. This is how you would communicate between your backend and .routemap
• Code encapsulated in {...} will be evaluated as Python
• If the embedded python returns False, the request will be aborted with 401 Cancelled