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dash

Data Apps & Dashboards for Python. No JavaScript Required.

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9Mentions
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24.5KGitHub stars
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Data Apps & Dashboards for Python. No JavaScript Required.

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 11:56:56 AM UTC.

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HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-06-22 19:51:45 UTC to 2024-11-13 06:05:37 UTC.

01232017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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In Backdoor attempt on Exolabs GitHub repo through an innocent looking PR
I created something like this inside a tech giant once. It never saw the light of day with regard to usership. It's good to see someone doing the same in the open source world. A brief summary of what I did: * Python-powered apps, like this * React was used to handle lifecycle. Basically, I avoided writing any kind of lifecycle management because I just wanted to do exactly what React would do. This was achieved via events firing when React lifecycle events fired. If props changed on the server, I'd send the new props to React to see if it would trigger a lifecycle event. If a lifecycle event was triggered, I'd replicate it onto the server which could again render new props. * The result was a nice seamless support for both native React components and the newfangled Python components (which could be made up of either more React components
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or Python components). * The purpose of all of this was to cater to ML engineers who didn't particularly like JavaScript and just wanted to build their analyses with Python and share them with coworkers. We had an automatic deployment system for them to share these. * Only caveats were around session management. Much of the state was handled on the server via a websocket, so if your connection dropped, you lost all ability to update the layout. Load balancing was going to be tricky, since the sessions would have to be shared somehow. I was thinking about serializing and deserializing using Pickle but never really got around to deployment. See also: [Dash](https://github.com/plotly/dash)
In React, but in Python
Hello HN! Nice to see this up here. Chris here, cofounder of Plotly. Falcon is open source and works without an internet connection or a Plotly Chart Studio account. Falcon wires together our graphing library plotly.js (https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/), the plotly.js chart editor (https://github.com/plotly/react-chart-editor), Electron, and some open source NPM packages for connecting to databases. Just FYI - As a company (Plotly), we're spending most of our development effort these days on Dash Open Source (https://github.com/plotly/dash) and Dash Enterprise (https://plotly.com/dash). Truth be told, we found that most companies we worked with preferred to own the analytical backend. We also heard many stories of organizations running into roadblocks with off-the-shelf SQL or BI tools (Falcon included!). Our approach with Dash is to
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provide the visualization and application primitives so that you could build your own tailor-made dashboards, analytical apps, or yes, even SQL editors. If you want to read more about where we're at, here's an essay we wrote last week on Dash: https://medium.com/plotly/dash-is-react-for-python-r-and-jul...
In Falcon is a free, open-source SQL editor with inline data visualization
We built Sourcegraph, which is a web-based code search and navigation tool. Our Python support is in beta, and you can try it out at https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/plotly/dash/-/blob/dash/d.... (And hit Alt+D/Opt+D to search by symbol.) Sourcegraph also supports a bunch of other languages: https://sourcegraph.com/help/languages. It gives you nice URLs (hit Alt+Y/Opt+Y to get the full commit ID in the URL to make it permanent). Would love to hear your feedback.
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