Idea: Move the program UI to a web-based framework

[Wolfy76700]

In an effort to optimize the UI, offer remote controlling of the software and potentially avoid the limitations imposed by Qt, the idea would be to rebuild the software UI in a web framework and host it on the stage strike server, and develop a lisghter form of UI which either redirects you to your local web browser or acts as a lightweight web browser.

Note: This would require some additional security work so the user of the stage strike app cannot easily access the main program UI, though maybe basic authentication would suffice?

[ladyisatis]

Few ideas here:

• FastAPI: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/
• Figure out a web frontend framework that'll be able to build interactions similar to the Qt TSH right now. If it's React, options:
  • Material UI: https://mui.com/material-ui/
  • Fluent 2: https://fluent2.microsoft.design/
  • BlueprintJS: https://blueprintjs.com/
• The backend and frontend can talk via WebSocket, same mechanism for updating the scoreboards that way.
  • FastAPI + WebSockets: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/advanced/websockets/
  • React + WebSockets: https://github.com/robtaussig/react-use-websocket
• Use a system tray library (like pystray) to be able to open a menu to open the web application in the default browser, exit, etc. You might be able to get away with using something a lot more lightweight than Qt if you want to open prompts using native OS stuff with toga.