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The first point you made is what myself and my team have struggled with. We have built simple apps for customers to upload a document to interact with and having the state be accurate to the document that the user uploaded was a major pain. Felt easier at that point to build something from scratch than to keep messing around with streamlit's session states

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Would you consider giving Shiny (for Python) a try? https://shiny.posit.co/py/ It's (I hope) pretty close to Streamlit in ease of use for getting started, but reactive programming runs all the way through it. The kind of app you're talking about are extremely natural to write in Shiny, you don't have to keep track of state yourself at all.

If you decide to give it a try and have trouble, please email me (email in profile) or drop by the Discord (https://discord.gg/yMGCamUMnS).

Haven't used Shiny on Python yet, but we use the R version a lot. It's been a good experience: solid, reliable framework, good set of widgets, decent styling out the box.

The Python version is a port from its R stablemate (well, maybe more than a port: a re-engineering). If it's as solid as its R parent then it'll be a very useful addition to the Python UI landscape.

Didn't know that there was shiny for python, so I'd definitely be interested in trying it out

That looks slick! Didn’t have any idea shiny was in python, but IIRC data scientists I’ve worked with in the past love it.

Yep agreed, I really found it good for the first something — e.g. a more advanced figma. Past that it was a bit of a gamble.

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