Jigna

Jigna is a bridge between Traits and the HTML world to provide a UI toolkit for traits models that is based on the powerful technologies of HTML, CSS and Javascript.

It provides two-way data bindings between the traits model and the HTML interface i.e. traits notifications automatically update the HTML UI and user inputs on the UI seamlessly change model attributes in Python. Jigna uses AngularJS for data bindings and one could think of it as an equivalent of AngularJS where the model lives in Python instead of Javascript. This gives us the power of Python and Traits for easily writing the application logic and the flexibility and expressibility of HTML for the user interface.

The HTML UI can be displayed both in the same Python process as well as remotely, allowing us to view and manipulate a Traits-based-object from the web.

Installation

To install jigna, copy and paste the following commands on your shell:

git clone git@github.com:enthought/jigna.git
cd jigna
sh develop.sh

Testing

To run the tests, you can simply do the following from the project's root directory:

nosetests

Examples

There are several examples to play with in the examples directory. Each example demonstrates one particular feature of jigna. Start with the simplest one by running:

python simple_view.py