Links updates for software tools

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<p>There is not yet a front-end (javascript) framework on the client, i.e. a phone app or webpage, which is stable enough for us to commit effort to. Bits of troggle use very old jQuery ("edit this page", and the svx file editor) , and Flask looks interesting, but maybe in 2025 we could see a good way to move all the user interface to the client and just have an API on the server.
<h3>API</h3>
<p>We will also need an API now-ish, whatever we do, so that keen kids can write their own special-purpose front-ends using new cool toys. Which will keep them out of our hair. We can do this easily with Django templates that generate JSON, which is <a href="">what CUYC do</a>
<p>We will also need an API now-ish, whatever we do, so that keen kids can write their own special-purpose front-ends using new cool toys. Which will keep them out of our hair. We can do this easily with Django templates that generate JSON, which is <a href="https://www.cuyc.org.uk/committee/events_json_short/">what CUYC do</a>
<h3>Postscript</h3>
<p>Andy Waddington, who wrote the first expo website in 1996, mentioned that he could never get the hang of Django at all, and working with SQL databases would require some serious book-revision: