Pyscript is a reasonably popular client side Python in the Browser solution so wondering how your positioned with regards to them ?
Launch HN: Pynecone (YC W23) – Web Apps in Pure Python
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
We definitely plan on doing this in the future to offload on the server. Unfortunately python WASM libraries aren’t at the level we would need yet.
Thanks for the answer. Maybe it would have been better for me to ask if you are planning to improve the python WASM libraries yourself or are you going to wait for the existing community to get them to the point where they're usable for a project like this?
Both, hopefully we will have some time to help contribute.
Re: Launch HN: Pynecone (YC W23) – Web Apps in Pure Python
#43How performant is it?
It seems like there's a slightly visible lag in some of the interactions (button clicks) in the docs.
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#44As someone who basically focuses on infra engineering, I sometimes want to throw together quick UIs for automating stuff. Always been terrified of React/Vue. This is practically a godsend - can't wait to build some tools for myself.
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#45At first I was very skeptical, but after looking further at the examples I feel like you pretty much nailed the developer experience. I have not used this yet but I will definitely check it out. Is there a roadmap? I see the GitHub project board is pretty focused on v0.1.20. I am curious what are your plans for client side code via wasm? I feel like that is a critical missing piece for me.
Thanks! We're using GH Projects for everything, we will update the board with a more long-term roadmap. Python support for wasm isn't where we need it yet, but we definitely want to integrate it when it's ready.
Re: Launch HN: Pynecone (YC W23) – Web Apps in Pure Python
#46why should I prefer Pynecone over NiceGUI?
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#47The API seems pretty similar to Streamlit, another library to create data apps with Python Given thar it’s more popular compared to Pynecone based on Github, how do you plan to differentiate?
I would love to hear about the way that you compile to NextJS because that’s a challenge with Streamlit. I have looked into your docs for custom components but I wonder if it’s possible to use compiled NextJS and bring my custom components there instead of bringing my components to Python?
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#48Great idea.
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#49I like it. Reminds me of Vaadin and friends. One question regarding the states: when do I get a new State allocated? Is it with every new tab? It's definitely not per-browser-session: if I open a new tab I seem to get a new state, while undoing a closed tab seems to recover its state with it though. Also are old states gc'ed?
Each new browser tab creates a new state. We use Redis to store the state and expire it after 30 minutes.
Re: Launch HN: Pynecone (YC W23) – Web Apps in Pure Python
#50Love the idea. As someone who's not trying to build The Next Big Thing (TM), but just get some stuff done - I appreciate the focus on the basics. A lot of the python webui's are heavily focused on AI/ML related stuff, which is cool - but what about those of us who just want to build an internal tool that does 5 specific things and nothing more? I try to avoid javascript if at all possible, so "python front to back" i…
> A lot of the python webui's are heavily focused on AI/ML
I'm sorry, what?