Fine Tuning Django User Permissions
Read the full blog post in Dan Davies's Blog.
The RSE team is involved in an increasing number of software projects requiring a front-end web app. The main advantage to having a web app element for your research software is that users can interact with it via a web browser, without having to install anything to their local machine. There are of course downsides, including the need to deploy, host and maintain software somewhere suitable. However, there is a wide range of popular frameworks to make the whole process a lot smoother.