datapane VS perspective

If you're looking for an easy way to build an HTML report using Python, you might find Datapane (https://github.com/datapane/datapane) helpful. I'm one of the people building it! We don't support polars (yet, on the roadmap) but we do support pandas so you can convert to a pandas DataFrame and include your data and any plots, etc.

If you're interested in an easier way to create reports using Python and Plotly/Pandas, you should check out our open-source library, Datapane: https://github.com/datapane/datapane - you can create a standalone, redistributable HTML file in a few lines of Python.

You might be interested in what we're hacking on at Datapane (I'm one of the founders): https://github.com/datapane/datapane.

You can create standalone HTML data reports from Python/Jupyter in ~3 lines of code: https://docs.datapane.com/reports/overview/

You can build web apps from Jupyter using Datapane [0]. I'm one of the founders, so let me know if I can help at all.

You can either export a static site [1] (and host on GH pages or S3), or, if you need backend logic, you can add Python functions [2] and serve on your favourite host (we use Fly).

We have specific Jupyter integration to automatically convert your notebook into an app [3].

[0] https://github.com/datapane/datapane

[1] https://docs.datapane.com/reference/reports/#datapane.proces...

[2] https://docs.datapane.com/apps/overview/

[3] https://docs.datapane.com/reports/jupyter-integration/#conve...

Our GitHub is https://github.com/datapane/datapane and you can get started here: https://docs.datapane.com/quickstart/

Thanks a lot! Yes, absolutely, a few people have brought this up and working working on removing the header right now. If I can help at all, feel free to reach us on GH Discussions: https://github.com/datapane/datapane/discussions

Why do you want to render to canvas?

Perspective seems to be the most performant html table. It is more focused on extremely fast updates than styling, although it looks good.

Glide is a newcomer that also renders to canvas.

https://github.com/finos/perspective

https://github.com/glideapps/glide-data-grid

SQL workbench also uses https://perspective.finos.org/ for tables. It's a WASM table library which pairs nicely with duckdb and works well with large tables.

Yes. We are working on adding support for aggregation and pivoting using https://github.com/finos/perspective

I haven't looked extensively at react-datasheet. It looks like it is trying to build more of a full product than the other data tables.

I have used ag-grid extensively, its an impressive product. Some pieces are a little awkward to use, particularly auto-sizing. But generally ag-grid has thought of most functionality and has a solution. The creator of ag-grid had a great interview on Javascript Jabber [1].

The other serious data table component that I have seen is FinOS Perspective [2]. This is extremely high performance, also more specialized and probably harder to customize. I think Perspective renders to a canvas element from Rust/C++ compiled to WASM (not 100% sure). It is also made for streaming updates.

AG-Grid supports streaming updates... but only in the commercial version.

Eventually the data model for these types of tables becomes tricky. I will be investigating parquet-wasm for my use case. Hit me up if you want to collaborate.

[1] https://blog.ag-grid.com/javascript-jabber-podcast/

[2] https://perspective.finos.org/

Something like https://github.com/finos/perspective ? We use an OLAP(-y) WASM engine to provide query-ability to our data visualization tool, and doing the calculations in the browser is cheaper and simpler than a server-side database for datasets that fit in browser memory.