NiceGUI Lets You Create Web Apps in Python
What a Nice Web App
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With a Raspberry Pi and the NiceGUI Python library you can build a weather station or a Pi Rover app in less than 15 lines of Python code.
The Python ecosystem is incredibly large, so it will not be unexpected that there are some excellent Python libraries that help you create web apps. Packages like Remi [1] and PySimpleGUIWeb [2] are great tools for building web apps totally in Python, and for web charting there are some solid choices like Bokeh [3] and Plotly [4].
If you're looking for an integrated Python web solution that handles both charting and displaying widgets, you might want to consider NiceGUI [5]: It lets you do everything in Python (no JavaScript or HTML required), it offers charting, chatting, data input, layout, and multi-media components, and the web server is built-in, too.
In this article, I introduce NiceGUI with two classic Raspberry Pi web projects: a Pi-based rover and a basic weather station. Both projects will include live video, and the Python scripts will contain less than 15 lines of code.
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