It's very easy to develop your app with PythonOnWheels.

This article just shows you how to install PythonOnWheels and to run the "hello PythonOnWheel's world" app. 

Installation:

pip install -U pythononwheels

See it work:

starting the server for the first time... [<3 Minutes read]

After installing you should have the generate_app script available.This installs the PythonOnWheels Application with the given name (-n) in the given path (-p)

generate_app -n todo -p <path>

We now have a a PythonOnWheels application, named todo in the given <path>.

If you cannot find the generate_app script
Check this short FAQ documentation

Go on, create a virtualenv and install the requirements

Switch to the todo app directory create a virtualenv:

python -m venv venv    

(Or use the classic virtualenv for this)

then cd into the todo directory, activate the virtualenv

• On Windows: (if you are in your todo app directory)

.\venv\Scripts\activate

• on Linux/OSX:
  

source ./venv/bin/activate

and install the requirements with

pip install -r requirements.txt

PYTHONPATH

Make sure that the directory "above" your chosen <path>  is in your PYTHONPATH. So if you decided to install your app in /development you should add /development to your PYTHONPATH. This is how you append to your PYTHONPATH. 

OSX/Linux

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/development

Windows

set PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;c:\development

Now we can run the server to see the "hello PythonOnWheel's world" site:

python server.py

Point your browser to:

http://localhost:8080

You should see something like this:

Watch this short asciinema to sum it up:

Next:

• Adding a model (NoSQL) [5-10 Minutes] (Models)
• Adding a handler [<10 Minutes] (Controllers)
• Adding a web frontend with scaffolding [<10 Minutes] (Views)
• Done!