Re: Building simple web based sysadmin tools

Using flask may be overkill but it will avoid all the common security 
mistakes you could make building things from scratch  for the 2 or 3 
things you'll anyway need.

Recently I've been asking if there was any other alternative to consider 
for "scripting language" substitute, especially because I had a vague 
interest in more serious multithread support and people came up with 
rust and go.

They both seemed reasonable choices, they have good and abundant 
libraries and I had a slight preference for rust.

Still they were completely new language for me and they didn't pay the 
bill for my modest interest in multithreading.

I think perl is too ambiguous (someone call it more "expressive") to 
write more than 30 lines of code.

What I think is left to consider are ruby and python. I'm more fluent in 
python, if I were more fluent in ruby I would chose it without getting 
into a feud.

I've used flask for small tools. Give a look to bottle if you're looking 
for something really minimal.

On 07/20/2017 12:27 AM, Robert Freiberger wrote:
> Hello SVLUG,
> 
> I've been working on Stack Clash patching and need to run some automated 
> count down reports for my team. We have Google Docs at work but I wanted 
> a simple page to display the current data and maybe a button to refresh 
> the query.
> 
> Previously (many years ago) I wrote some tools using Perl and the CGI 
> module, I haven't deeply explored Perl5 in years and wonder if there's 
> another solution.
> 
> Once I have this working I like to add a database and extend the report 
> to include various details but right now the working sketch of the site 
> can be extremely simple.
> 
> Very welcome to suggestions and ideas. I'm pretty sure I could make 
> something in Python and Flask but since the requirements are so simple, 
> this might be overkill for the task.
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert
> 
> 
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