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Streamlit • A faster way to build and share data apps

by mikecarlton on 1/17/24, 2:17 PM with 2 comments

• by peddling-brink on 1/17/24, 4:30 PM

  I built a branching conversational LLM chat utility using streamlit in a weekend having never used it before.

  I don’t do much with UI’s so I can’t compare, but it was fairly simple and nice to work with. I wish there was a similar toolkit for Go.

• by erhserhdfd on 1/17/24, 4:54 PM

  Streamlit and Shiny for Python are both great for cranking out simple UI's for basic use cases, especially where there is a tie-in with something data or machine learning related.

  A typical workflow could be for a team to prototype in one of these tools, get feedback, but at some point they eventually get rebuilt as a proper webapp. I would love to see these tools evolve to not require that total rebuild. Maybe they could add the capability to export to React or Angular. Then that could be used as a starting point for converting that into a proper webapp.