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IACR / latex-submit

Web server to receive uploaded LaTeX and execute it in a docker container.
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Consider switching from flask to quart #15

Closed kmccurley closed 1 year ago

kmccurley commented 1 year ago

At the time that I started this project, I chose Flask because it was stable and easy to build a web interface. Now I see that the Flask API is being re-implemented as quart in asyncio. One advantage of this would be to support things like notifications as a compilation is running (we currently poll, but we could use web sockets if the server was asynchronous). I'm most interested in stability, and the documentation for Quart appears to be incomplete as of this time. We also have dependencies on things like flask-mail and flask-sqlalchemy, and there needs to be support for some replacement under Quart.

kmccurley commented 1 year ago

See also this announcement for discussion about extensions.

kmccurley commented 1 year ago

After reading more about it, I decided this is way premature. We can continue to use polling.