Show HN: Python Live GUI – A Hybrid of Dear ImGUI and Phoenix LiveView

Hey all, author here.

I had some time off last week so I built a little tool I've been planning on using for a while now.

Thought I'd just comment on my motivations for building this.

I bought a little chromebook tablet to take on holidays. I've been enjoying the experience of using a remote IDE to code on my personal server.

I thought it would be neat if I could quickly make myself GUIs for other utilities on my remote server that get rendered on my chromebook. Doing this like being able to run bash scripts remotely.

I start utility scripts with this tool and then just use ssh port forwarding to view it locally.

The fun bit is the application itself is then just written in python.

There are some similar alternatives[1] but I wanted to be able to write GUI elements like ImGUI so I decided to build my own tool in the end.

I just wrote it in python because that's what I've been using at work lately.

[1] https://github.com/dbohdan/liveviews#python

Yeah I should probably replace the screenshot with a gif. Thanks for the feedback!

Immediate mode GUIs are amazing and super slept on if you want to quickly slap together user interfaces.

Another LiveView-like UI framework for Python: https://github.com/flet-dev/flet - created specifically for highly interactive real-time experiences. You build your UI from controls made of Flutter widgets and partial UI updates are passed to a browser via WebSockets.

The result can be hosted? I don't understand if you can do clientserver communication.