René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Embedding Vpython7 in a web page","articleBody":"Hi -- New to VPython, in many ways it is my dream platform. The Jupyter integration is  awesome, but I want to utilize the browser capabilities to embed VPython in a page. Note that I do _not_ want to transpile into glowscript; I want to run a standard Python server and allow users to connect and have an interactive 3D experience.\r\n\r\nI see that it is architected as a client-server app using websockets, running standard Python and opening a web  browser on a random port on localhost. It seems to me there should be an easy way to run the server headless so to speak, and have it respond to http requests from a browser over a fixed port -- but I can't find any documentation or examples of this approach.\r\n\r\nAs a dirty POC, I hacked no_notebook.py to use a hard-coded port, and commented out the code that launches a browser. (This is a better dev experience already as the browser launch code does not play nicely with Ubuntu/gnome's multiple workspaces, but I digress...)\r\n\r\nIt seems a small step from here to serving on say port 5123, and wrapping nginx TLS around it so the browser can hit https://mysite and Bob's your uncle...\r\n\r\nSo -- I guess this is a feature request? I could probably pull together a PR on this - unless there is some obvious way to do it on the platform as it exists, but I get the feeling there has been more focus on the notebook implementation.\r\n\r\nAny leads or suggestions greatly appreciated. And Thank You for contributing to the Open Source community!","author":{"url":"https://github.com/danx0r","@type":"Person","name":"danx0r"},"datePublished":"2022-08-11T03:02:38.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/217/vpython-jupyter/issues/217"}