# Run a Dash App like 'normal' App

**URL:** <https://community.plotly.com/t/run-a-dash-app-like-normal-app/45757>\
**Category:** Dash Python\
**Created:** [October 6, 2020, 8:19pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/run-a-dash-app-like-normal-app/45757 "2020-10-06T20:19:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 8:19pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/run-a-dash-app-like-normal-app/45757/1 "2020-10-06T20:19:59Z")

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Hi, as far as I am aware Dash was specifically build for Web applications that render in the browser and hence can be used like a website by an unlimited amount of people once deployed on the web.

Yet, I use them exclusively on my local machine for analytic purposes. In order to start them I have to open my IDE (Rstudio or PyCharm) then run the code and open the connection in my browser. I was wondering if there might be a way to run Dash Apps more like ‘normal’ Apps. Meaning having an icon on my Mac that I can click on, which then runs my App and opens the connection in my browser automatically, thereby bypassing the IDE and the manual steps.

Has anyone experience with this?  
Thanks 🙂