textual-serve is not starting

[BenniWi]

Hi everyone,

I'm quite new to textual and still try to figure out some stuff. (I really like it so far). Somehow textual serve is not working for me.

Running python -m textual works totally fine as expected.

Running

from textual_serve.server import Server

server = Server("python -m textual")
server.serve(debug=True)

just creates a website which looks like this

I'm having these versions installed:

textual                 0.79.1
textual-dev             1.5.1
textual-serve           1.0.2

and I'm using python 3.12.3.

Am I doing something wrong?

[willmcgugan]

Textual serve is at 1.1.1. If you update, it should work.

How did you install? I would have expected you get the latest automatically.

[BenniWi]

Hi, thanks a lot for the fast reply. I actually had 1.1.1 installed and it didn't work either. I then checked the latest tags on GitHub and installed the versions from the tags.

re-installing latest versions

textual                 0.79.1
textual-dev             1.6.1
textual-serve           1.1.1

still the same result on port 8000 ➡️ tested another port and it works. Unfortunately still the same problem with the calculator demo and my own application. Any hints where I could look for the error (seems to be an issue on my machine!?)

[willmcgugan]

If it is not working on port 8000, it suggests some other process is listening on that port.

If you run with DEBUG=1 it will give more information.

The calculator example is known not to work with textual serve, as it uses inline mode. We will have a fix for that soon.

[BenniWi]

So you just solved the problem 👍

I used the calculator example as basis for my own application. I didn't think about the "inline" option and also used that.

Now everything works fine 🥳 .

(Maybe a short notice about that would make sense? Maybe I just didn't see it?)

Thanks a lot for the immediate help.