reacton VS tictacreact2

2. Works with ipywidgets, so many existing data apps can be ported over very easily -- Jupyter users celebrate.

I'm not associated with the project, but I know the maintainers (creators of Volia [2]) and they are honestly excellent. I haven't use the project in production, but the getting starting guide is pretty compelling.

[1] https://github.com/widgetti/reacton

Take a look at https://github.com/widgetti/reacton

reacton – A pure Python port of React for ipywidgets

Our GitHub repo is at: https://github.com/widgetti/reacton Documentation is at: https://reacton.solara.dev/

I've made React applications using Python via Transcrypt, but wrap component functions in a Python decorator that make direct calls to React.createElement() instead of using JSX (example: https://github.com/JennaSys/tictacreact2). It's possible to use JSX with this approach as well, but IMO it starts to get messy and defeats the purpose of using JSX in the first place.

If you are curious what the code looks like, this is the official Intro to React tutorial done in Python with function components.

I actually use Python to create React applications via Transcrypt and use functional components in that process. IMO it's quite a bit cleaner than using class components. It's more of a functional programming paradigm than OOP, but didn't take long to get used to. You do end up using more closures and lambdas than you would with procedural and OOP. This example based on the official React tutorial gives you an idea of what it looks like in Python.

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As an exercise, I did the official React tutorial using Python, and also converted it to use hooks instead of classes: https://github.com/JennaSys/tictacreact2