The gift of giving feedback

For todays advent of code, we built a quick app to help your friends and family give you feedback on your gifts:

https://christmas-present-feedback.anvil.app

Of course, the app is built with nothing but Python!

Here’s how it works:

For this app, we took advantage of Anvil’s RichText component. We added a few slots to the RichText and populated them with DropDowns. Each DropDown contains some suggestions for people to use in their feedback.

Then, we collect all the selections a user makes with some client-side Python and pass their feedback to a server function to store the feedback in our app’s database. We also call anvil.email.send() to use Anvil’s built-in Email Service to send us an email with the feedback.

@anvil.server.callable
def submit_feedback(name, gift, feedback):
  tables.app_tables.feedback.add_row(name=name, gift=gift, feedback=feedback)
  anvil.email.send(
    from_name=name,
    subject=f"Feedback for {gift}",
    html=f"""
      From: {name}
      <br>
      Gift: {gift}
      <br>
      <br>
      Feedback:
      {feedback}
    """
  )

Here’s how the email looks in our inbox:

And that’s all there is to it!

See the Source

Check out the source code for yourself!