First, you should use any WebSocket or polling mechanics to notify the frontend part about changes that happened. I use Flask-SocketIO wrapper, and very happy with async messaging for my tiny apps.
Nest, you can do all logic which you need in a separate thread(s), and notify the frontend via SocketIO object (Flask holds continuous open connection with every frontend client).
As an example, I just implemented page reload on backend file modifications:
<!doctype html>
<script>
sio = io()
sio.on('reload',(info)=>{
console.log(['sio','reload',info])
document.location.reload()
})
</script>
class App(Web, Module):
def __init__(self, V):
## flask module instance
self.flask = flask
## wrapped application instance
self.app = flask.Flask(self.value)
self.app.config['SECRET_KEY'] = config.SECRET_KEY
## `flask-socketio`
self.sio = SocketIO(self.app)
self.watchfiles()
## inotify reload files after change via `sio(reload)``
def watchfiles(self):
from watchdog.observers import Observer
from watchdog.events import FileSystemEventHandler
class Handler(FileSystemEventHandler):
def __init__(self,sio):
super().__init__()
self.sio = sio
def on_modified(self, event):
print([self.on_modified,self,event])
self.sio.emit('reload',[event.src_path,event.event_type,event.is_directory])
self.observer = Observer()
self.observer.schedule(Handler(self.sio),path='static',recursive=True)
self.observer.schedule(Handler(self.sio),path='templates',recursive=True)
self.observer.start()