Detecting "a Serve" - Possible ?

[ADevAJ]

Is there a way for a textual app itself to detect when it is being served via textual_serve vs being used directly in terminal?

Use case is, eg I want BINDINGS or other functionality which becomes active when my app is being served via textual_serve...

[darrenburns]

@willmcgugan Do we have a publicly exposed mechanism for this?

[labo-China]

Just check if os.environ.get('TEXTUAL_DRIVER') == 'textual.drivers.web_driver:WebDriver' would work.

[ADevAJ]

Thank you for the workaround.

Would love to see textual expose an official property for this as well.

[willmcgugan]

That will work for the foreseeable future. But we can definitely add some kind property to app. It is a Textual thing though, so I'll create an issue there.

[damajor]

It works for me using
https://textual.textualize.io/api/app/#textual.app.App.is_web