Taipy's User Interface

The Taipy GUI library provides Python classes that make it easy to create powerful web applications in minutes.

What is a graphical user interface?

A graphical user interface (or GUI) displays and organizes graphic elements on the user's device. These elements represent application data and allow users to interact with the application code.

There are mechanisms in place to install communication between the server, running at the heart of the application, and the graphical interface presented to end-users.

Main concepts

In Taipy, GUIs are made of generated web pages served by a web server hosted by the Taipy application itself (or on which the Taipy application relies). Taipy provides the class Gui that handles this server and its settings.

The Gui class holds any number of pages, where text and graphical elements can be placed. These elements can reflect the state of your application variables so the end-user can be presented with relevant information.
Users can also interact with some of those elements to trigger application code that can change the displayed information, produce more data to visualize or move to a completely different page.

The generated web pages are built from a set of template text files that you provide, where you would have planted placeholders that will display application data. The application end users can then see and interact with the application. We call these representative and interactive objects: visual elements.

To describe the content of pages, Taipy comes the support for two template formats, handled by the classes Markdown and Html.

The basic principle is that you create pages as you need them, give them a name so you can indicate to your browser how to access these pages, and provide these pages to the Gui instance used in your application.

When you invoke the run() method of the Gui, a web server is started and allows web clients to connect to it then request pages. This is when Taipy transforms the page you had created into some HTML content sent back to the client so the user can see the application interface and start using it.

You can find more information on how pages are created and used in Taipy application in the Pages section.

To run the Taipy GUI service with some other Taipy services, please refer to the Running Taipy services page