py-shiny VS reflex

I really like this idea of using Python to create both the frontend and backend. Another lib doing this is https://solara.dev/ . Something I particularly like about Solara is that you can interactively build your app in a Jupyter Notebook, since behind the scenes it's using ipywidgets.

Has anyone compared Solara and Reflex and can comment on pros/cons? Are there other options in this space? Maybe https://shiny.posit.co/py/ ?

Would you consider giving Shiny (for Python) a try? https://shiny.posit.co/py/ It's (I hope) pretty close to Streamlit in ease of use for getting started, but reactive programming runs all the way through it. The kind of app you're talking about are extremely natural to write in Shiny, you don't have to keep track of state yourself at all.

If you decide to give it a try and have trouble, please email me (email in profile) or drop by the Discord (https://discord.gg/yMGCamUMnS).

Code is here: https://github.com/rstudio/py-shiny/tree/duckdb-example/examples/duckdb

The equivalent of shiny in python is shiny for python: https://shiny.posit.co/py/

I'm not sure how usable it is, but Shiny for Python exists: https://shiny.rstudio.com/py/

There's Shiny for Python - originally for R - but it's only Alpha status: https://shiny.rstudio.com/py/

Hey thanks for the feedback. We're working on relaxing our dependencies [1] to make reflex more compatible. Do you remember what libraries you had the conflict with?

[1] https://github.com/reflex-dev/reflex/pull/2796

Thanks! Pue looks cool, thanks for sharing. I see some similarities to https://reflex.dev in terms of providing a declarative dom expression language with built-in conditionals and loop primitives.

In the dynamic world of web development, Python has emerged as a dominant force, especially in backend development – the primary focus of this blog post. Although it's worth mentioning that there are ongoing efforts to use Python for the frontend as well, like Reflex (previously known as Pynecone, they presumably had to change their name because of Pinecone vector database), which even garnered support from Y Combinator. Samuel Colvin (creator of Pydantic) is also working on FastUI (he literally just released the first version in December 2023).

They have a ready to use LLM chat App, which makes it more likely I will check it out.

https://github.com/reflex-dev/reflex

We will use Reflex to build this chatbot.

To learn more about Reflex, you can read here: https://reflex.dev/

Reflex is an open-source, full-stack Python framework that makes it easy to build and deploy web apps in minutes. You have most of the features of a frontend library like Reactjs and a backend framework like Django in one with ease in development and deployment. All while developing in a single language PYTHON.

Repo : https://github.com/reflex-dev/reflex