Weight tracker + progress graph without HTML/JS

I’ve been learning Python for a few months, and really wanted to share one of my projects with friends and online. Learning HTML/CSS/JS or any framework for front-end seemed like a whole lot of work for such a simple wish.

I solved this by using Abstra Cloud's lib (full disclaimer: I've been working for them!). I was able to generate a UI and navigation from my script just by updating the commands, for example from “input” to “read”. The entire web app is just 1 Python file + 1 tsv file.

I used an authentication widget to share with friends, but opted for a simple username here so everyone could test it without hassle. Apart from the hackerforms library, I used Pandas and Plotly to build and display the graph.

It’s a really simple script, but I loved how it’s possible to build such a useful tool in just a few lines of code.

Click here to try out the tracker!

Hopefully someone here can benefit from my app :)