Hey guys
This is probably crazy, and I probably don’t know enough about web frameworks like Flask and Django. But here goes.
Goal
I want to trigger a user-defined function in my Dash app from the browser URL or an underlying Flask app as an @app.route.
Why?
I want to display a particular view within my dash app via a hard URL, effectively like a simple API.
Example
myappdomain.com/query_string/query_year
I know in flask you can grab variables straight from the path, such as:
@app.route('/<string:query>/<int:year>')
def blah(query,year):
#... Logic goes here
return <call child dash app function somehow>
So I guess I’m wondering if it’s possible to somehow trigger a specific dash function/callback from the return ‘view’ of a flask route? Or if indeed this cam be done more simply from within the dash app itself?? (I dont actually need a custom flask app)
The idea would be you could redirect to display a specific state of your dash app DIRECTLY via the URL string, like an API, just as if the user had navigated there themselves.
Is this possible in any way?
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