Quick Start

This is a short guide that will show you the basics of creating a Web application based on tangled.web.

Install Python 3.3+

First, install Python 3.3. Older versions of Python 3 will not work. Mainly, this is because of the use of built-in namespace package support that was added in Python 3.3.

You can download Python 3.3 from here. If you’re using Mac OS, Homebrew is an easy way to install Python:

brew install python3

Note

Python 2.x is not supported, and there are no plans to support it.

Virtual Env

Next, set up an isolated virtual environment. Since we’re using Python 3, this is built in. The command for creating a virtual env looks like this:

python3 -m venv helloworld.venv

Change into the helloworld.venv directory and download the following file there:

https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py

Then run the following command:

./bin/python get-pip.py

Install Dependencies

A couple of Tangled dependencies need to be installed so that the tangled scaffold command and basic scaffold are available:

./bin/pip install tangled.web==VERSION

Replace VERSION with the version you want to install. The current version is 1.0a13.dev0.

If you want to use the latest code, you can do this instead (requires git to be installed):

./bin/pip install -e git+git://github.com/TangledWeb/tangled#egg=tangled
./bin/pip install -e git+git://github.com/TangledWeb/tangled.web#egg=tangled.web

Create a Basic Tangled Web App

Now that the virtual environment is set up and the Tangled dependencies have been installed, a project can be created. Run the following commands in the helloworld.venv directory:

./bin/tangled scaffold basic helloworld
./bin/pip install -e helloworld

Serve it Up

Now that everything’s installed, it’s time to run the app:

./bin/tangled serve -f helloworld/development.ini

Now you can visit http://localhost:6666/ and http://localhost:6666/name.

Next Steps

Take a look at the app configuration in helloworld/helloworld/__init__.py and the Hello resource in helloworld/helloworld/resources.py.

The Application API documentation currently has the most comprehensive info on creating and configuring Tangled Web apps.

Note

This is all still very much a work in progress. Please feel free to make suggestions or report issues on GitHub.