mesop

Hey folks - I shared about Mesop on Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567327) ~2 months ago and got a ton of really helpful feedback. For those unfamiliar, Mesop is a new open-source Python UI framework that enables you to rapidly build AI apps. We often get asked how Mesop differs from other Python UI frameworks like Streamlit and Gradio so we've created a comparison guide between Mesop and Streamlit and Gradio. Home page: https://google.github.io/mesop/ GitHub: https://github.com/google/mesop Please let us know if you have any feedback or questions about the comparison guide or Mesop in general. Thanks!

Hey folks - I shared about Mesop on Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567327) ~2 months ago and got a ton of really helpful feedback. For those unfamiliar, Mesop is a new open-source Python UI framework that enables you to rapidly build AI apps. We often get asked how Mesop differs from other Python UI frameworks like Streamlit and Gradio so we've created a comparison guide between Mesop and Streamlit and Gradio. Home page: https://google.github.io/mesop/ GitHub: https://github.com/google/mesop Please let us know if you have any feedback or questions about the comparison guide or Mesop in general. Thanks!

I agree with you, with just one exception - hardcoding ANSI escape sequences in strings (yes, a pet peeve of mine). https://github.com/google/mesop/blob/fa17bcdcd765adef4b3259e...

Thanks, I've filed an issue: https://github.com/google/mesop/issues/359

Thanks for the question! Streamlit is definitely more mature and I think it's a great tool for many use cases. Where I think Mesop shines is that you get a lot of flexibility, just by writing your UI in Python. For example, Mesop has an out-of-the-box [chat component](https://google.github.io/mesop/demo/), but if you need to customize it, you can actually just copy the [chat.py file](https://github.com/google/mesop/blob/main/mesop/labs/chat.py) and customize it however you want. In comparison, Streamlit is great to get started with, but once you're trying to do some complex customizations, you'll often need to write your own React/TypeScript component. I think the other thing is that Mesop has a [different philosophy for building UIs](https://google.github.io/mesop/blog/2024/05/13/why-mesop/) (e.g. based on functions) which results in a

OK thanks. I've filed an issue here: https://github.com/google/mesop/issues/345 if you could share with us a repro (the Mesop code you're running) on the issue, that would be helpful in debugging this. If you take a look at the "table" example on the demo gallery: https://google.github.io/mesop/demo/ it shows how to use Pandas w/ Mesop, so I'm not sure what's going on.

I’m excited to share about Mesop - a new, open-source Python UI framework that enables Python developers to quickly build delightful web apps in a scalable way. A small team of us at Google have been developing Mesop as an unofficial 20% project for the past few months. A wide range of research and product teams at Google have been using it to rapidly build internal apps and we’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback internally so now we’re looking to get feedback from the open-source community. We think that Mesop provides a unique approach to building web UIs in Python - making it both easy to get started and also flexible enough to build customized UIs for a wide range of use cases. You can learn more about why we built Mesop here: https://google.github.io/mesop/blog/2024/05/13/why-mesop/ To look at some example Mesop apps, check out our