How did you discover NiceGUI?

[evnchn]

Cause

I find it strange that there's not a lot of YouTube videos introducing NiceGUI, unlike other web frameworks, even Python-based ones.

Not only that, I can't recall (for the life of me) how I stumbled into NiceGUI either. I only know the first version I used was 1.2.4. I tried to search my Google Activity history, but the first result was "nicegui.io form input" on 3 Apr 2023, 16:15, so certainly I must have known about NiceGUI before then, but how?

Hypothesis

My hypothesis is that, people magically stumble into NiceGUI 🪄. And I'd like to know if it's right or wrong.

Survey

So, I'd like to do a poll and see how did you discover NiceGUI.

Impact

The result of this poll can potentially make NiceGUI more reachable, if we work to enhance it.

If none of the choices match, then comment below. Thanks!

[falkoschindler]

I find it strange that there's not a lot of YouTube videos introducing NiceGUI

Me too. Once in a while there are videos (partly AI-generated) with almost no views. One major channel, Arjan Codes, mentioned us once (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiLgG4CabPo), but didn't really see the full potential. In other videos Arjan still promotes Streamlit or other less powerful GUI frameworks. And Python Bytes covered it two years ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr4swJVdPys). There's still potential for promoting it to a greater audience.

[thetableman]

ArjanCodes just gave another shout out to NiceGUI https://youtu.be/F09EK4ztG34?t=787&si=JBWcPjiwyXOoiKgS

[dmenne]

That's how I found it. It's genius.

[thevinchi]

I found nicegui about a year ago while evaluating streamlit and looking for better alternatives due to the limitations with streamlit. I believe it was a comment on one of their GitHub issues made by someone who was already a fan of nicegui.

[evnchn]

Well I heard some Streamlit fans having some friction converting to NiceGUI since it's different (#21, as well as personal experience)

I imagine with #4688 can we make an auto-converter (with decent accuracy?) to convert existing Streamlit scripts to NiceGUI.

Since I'd imagine what NiceGUI can do is a superset of Streamlit (I think so?), this should be doable.

@falkoschindler then some questions:

• Do you think it's doable? Is NiceGUI superset of Streamlit in terms of functionality?
• Is this service for free or at a fee?
• Who's paying for the AI credits?

[falkoschindler]

Is NiceGUI superset of Streamlit in terms of functionality?

I think there are still some Streamlit elements without a NiceGUI counterpart. But I don't know Streamlit by heart.

Do you think it's doable? Is this service for free or at a fee? Who's paying for the AI credits?

It's hard to answer questions about a hypothetical service. In simple cases you can simply ask an AI of your choice, in other cases it might not work at all.

[evnchn]

If it isn't obvious, I want to make some NiceGUI-related LLM service, which can include an generic coding agent, or perhaps a Streamlit converter.

Therefore I'm asking about the paid/free nature and also the source.

I guess I can use my university's but I'd quickly run out of money... 💸

[feoh]

I learned about NiceGUI from the Pybites Circle Community "Summer of Pybites Code" competition this year :)

[MicaelJarniac]

As far as I remember, I first heard of NiceGUI on a Steam game called Joy of Programming.

[falkoschindler]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2216770/JOY_OF_PROGRAMMING__Software_Engineering_Simulator/ 👍🏻

[evnchn]

https://www.reddit.com/r/nicegui/comments/11vjiqy/i_recently_integrated_nicegui_into_the/

[evnchn]

Mentioned in The Real Python Podcast

Episode 263: Exploring Mixin Classes in Python

00:44:05 – nicegui: Create Web-Based UI With Python

https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/263/#t=2645

Funny thing is we do use Mixin Classes: https://github.com/zauberzeug/nicegui/tree/main/nicegui/elements/mixins

[Mogit21]

I recently wrote an article introducing NiceGUI to new users. I first published it on my personal blog and Medium, and I'm excited to share that it was also featured today in PyCoders Weekly.
Here are the links:
My personal Blog:
Medium:
PyCoders Weekly:
I wrote this piece to help more developers discover how easy and fun it is to build UIs with NiceGUI. Hopefully, it can serve as a friendly resource for people who are just getting started.

[Yuerchu]

My journey with NiceGUI began out of a need for a contemporary UI framework, as I found options like tkinter and wxPython to be outdated for my purposes. One day, a search for "Python UI framework" led me to an amazing discovery: a Python-based framework that elegantly implements Material Design. The discovery of NiceGUI proved to be a turning point in my development work.

Subsequently, to assist Chinese speakers who prefer to learn in their native language, I developed the Simplified Chinese documentation for the framework. This project is now available as NiceGUI 中文网.

[evnchn]

@falkoschindler he's cooking HARD while I'm gone.

The only shortcoming I'm seeing right now is the lack of interactive demo. I'm considering to let that site iframe the main one.

[evnchn]

#4025

It all started with this.

[falkoschindler]

This is getting interesting... Let's continue the discussion in a separate thread: #5198. 🙂

[coolynx]

I wanted to create a desktop GUI app using Python. Those existing Python or Electron GUI were ugly or bloated. I was waiting, when someone creates a lightweight version of Electron. But then one day I found https://nicegui.io/documentation#native_mode that was based on https://github.com/r0x0r/pywebview.

I thought that it is the same project for Python as Laravel was for PHP. The only missing part was a Jeffrey who explains how easy it is to create a tiny desktop app. You do not have to learn Swift or other languages. That is the real bomb! 🚀

If I wanted to create a tiny web project that works in a browser I would go for PHP. But image how cool it is to make a fully functional desktop app. 🥰

That was the only reason why I use it. And you are no more branding it like that. As a result people can not find it. 🙄

[laoshaw]

i use it for exactly the same reason

[CaesarDuarte]

I discovered NiceGUI when I was looking for something to deal with the limitation and mess of Streamlit for sessions (I'm creating a project that will involve multiple pages and internal actions), NiceGUI proved to be much better (and well, until 2.23.3 customizable in terms of css, I'll see how 3.0+ turned out soon) and since then I started using it, recreating what I had done in Streamlit and migrating the framework as a whole.

[odoublewen]

Two months ago I googled "plotly dash vs" and let the Google prompt auto complete, which it did with "streamlit nicegui tableau". The first and third, I knew I didn't want, but NiceGUI was new to me. I spent some time reading about it, and then dove in. I love it, thank you!

[evnchn]

@falkoschindler on this, I'm moderately surprised that we got on the Google keyword radar, given our documentation website's SEO is not that hot.

So, is SEO on our wishlist?

[brunnenhof]

Coming late to the party ...
In my day job I build socio-economic system dynamics simulation models in Vensim , the last example is here Prompted by a high school teacher friend, I wanted to create a web game out of this. Since I know nothing about front, nor back, nor full-stack development, nor web deployment, but a tiny bit about Python, I translated the model to python and then looked for a framework to put the model into, so the users could interact with it. Started with Streamlit, but quickly decamped due to their (non-existing) state handling. Looked at rio.dev (did not really understand their class-ifying everthing), reflex.dev (became too costly and they seem obsessed with building AI apps) and ended up with anvil.works to do the prototype. Worked ok, but never managed to deploy on my own server and their hosting is too costly for an open-source project targeted at high schools. So, found Falko's Ireland talk on the web, and I am now trying to do the production version of the game in NiceGui. It seems to have everything I need (including Nice-On-Air) but sometimes I have a hard time to follow the superbly technical (robotic?) mindset of the creators. But the help is fast and to the point, so here it goes. If I ever get to the end, I will give a link to the final game.

[dfloer]

I searched for something like "python webui" because I was struggling to (poorly) write Javascript for a remote control for an embedded project. It was somewhere pre 1.0, and while rough, I think I got more work done in a weekend with NiceGUI than I'd gotten done in two weeks of trying to write JS without learning JS.

[evnchn]

https://www.pythonguis.com/tutorials/getting-started-nicegui/ is decent

[evnchn]

Also shoutout to https://www.may69.com/purepython/#NiceGUI

[cudmore]

To be honest, chatgpt back in Nov 2025 and i have not looked back!

[evnchn]

Is it possible to check what prompt lead to ChatGPT recommending NiceGUI? Thanks.

After SEO the next step is GEO and AEO.

[KrilleGH]

I wanted to build a frontend for an FastAPI service I built and already found FastUI in the process.

However it seems quite limited and a bit unmaintained, I wanted something else. Google found a Reddit post where NiceGUI was recommended and I was quite impressed about its rich, flexible and nice feature set.

Thanks for creating it. ❤️

[kewartoscar]

I wanted to migrate our School Management software from PyQt5 to a web app to make it more accessible.
I started with Justpy, then went on and on to Streamlit. I was happy with Streamlit till the state session became my challenge. I chanced on NiceGUI from YouTube, and it has been my favourite since.

[onclefranck]

I first heard about Streamlit from a colleague. I looked into it and liked it a lot, but there was one annoyance that really stood out to me: Streamlit tried to collect my email address through a welcome message printed in the logs.

While exploring alternatives, I discovered NiceGUI. I was already a fan of Vue.js, and NiceGUI worked exactly the way I had hoped such a framework would work.

I am now using it professionally as part of an industrial platform, and I am also trying to contribute to its ecosystem through the development of nicegui-builder.

To me, NiceGUI is an excellent discovery with strong potential in the niche of rapidly developed Python user interfaces, especially for applications that do not need to serve a very large number of concurrent users. Industrial use cases that are not security-sensitive seem to me like especially strong candidates for this library.

[evnchn]

Working theory of how I discovered NiceGUI: On 3 Apr 2023 ~20:50–22:15 HKT, after login to GitHub on a fresh computer, I must have somehow wandered into https://github.com/zauberzeug/nicegui via the home feed or in-site search. I then copied the README-specific ui.label/ui.button demo into my serve_website.py (private project), jumped to Chrome for https://nicegui.io/reference at 22:15 and committed the file at 23:34.

Revelation: enhance GitHub-side visibility besides the website may be useful.

[SaadZahem]

I found about nicegui the last year during python discord 12th code jam. The theme was about python in the web. My team and I chose to work with nicegui because of the convenience it provides. Even though we didn't win that competition, I liked nicegui and I returned back for more.