Plain – a web framework for building products with Python

As a python/stats focused dev, I just want a web framework that simplifies the idea -> website process.

I've been able to 'release' some simple tools into the public with plotly/django, but having to also then figure out things like gunicorn, dbms, vps hosting etc. is quite time consuming.

My biggest issue is that a lot of these frameworks seem to add complexity (under the guise of simplicity) as opposed to making things simpler. They just become more things to manage. Maybe I'm missing something and someone can point me in the right direction.

There are lots of pros on here who will find things like this trivial, but for someone like me (independent with limited professional dev training) the time investment is high as is the cost of "switching" between what seem to be mutually exclusive tasks (web dev/ops, and local analytics work).

I have been there. Devops is never really fun. PaaS can take some of the pain away but quickly problems emerge with vendor lock in and you spend as much if not more time running the PaaS.

The best setup I ever had for deployment was a git hook which set ENVVARS and redeployed Apache when I did a push to prod. But if you need advanced features like multiple environments and database migrations this can get complicated fast