Eel
Dev tools
gui library
SHOW HN2018
201points
44comments
#177of 2,155 in 2018
Top 9%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
4 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.19.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful alternative to heavy GUI frameworks for simple apps
From 2 comments
It looks great. I have been using bottle for simple web application. While there appears to be overlap between the too this looks excellent way to built good quality client apps…
zoom6628 on HNWow, that’s pretty cool! I can think of some interesting uses for this!
Mister_Snuggles on HN
Objections
Tk interfaces look dated and non-native
From 2 comments
I'm out of the loop, but I have never seen a Tk interface that didn't look straight out of 1997. Also, many people are "fluent" in HTML/javascript/python, but aren't so familiar…
tasty_freeze on HNThe tk native widgets don’t look good, because they don’t follow the OS’s user interface conventions. The most notable issue is that widgets don’t have the correct padding or…
jitl on HN
Not self-hostable or open source for comparable hosted tools
From 1 comment
cool except it's not self-hostable/oss. why would you use a hosted frontend for a local app?
mlevental on HN
Requests
Web-accessible version where others get a link
From 1 comment
Could you create a web accessable version of this where you give someone a link and they would have the same access? I like this because I really don't like dropping into…
zitterbewegung on HN
Questions
Can it be packaged into a distributable package?
From 1 comment
I don't see it mentioned in the README, but is this something I can package into a distributable package?
bmelton on HN
What is the performance compared to Electron?
From 1 comment
What's the performance like, compared to Electron?
lifeformed on HN
Alternatives named
Anvil
From 1 comment
This is neat! One similar project is https://anvil.works. It's got a pure Python front end rather than HTML/CSS/JS, with a drag-and-drop designer - kinda like a modern Delphi or…
meredydd on HN
Tk / themed Tk
From 2 comments
I do not want to sound in a bad way, though if you need to create very simple GUIs with Python, what's wrong with Tk?
trymas on HNThemed TK uses native widgets and it presents the same basic API. It's distributed by default too, it's not an external library. You can use both the old and the new widgets in…
JetSpiegel on HN
Gooey
From 1 comment
Shameless plug! I have a similar Python project but focused on building native applications without actually writing a single line of UI code. I call it Gooey[1]! It was front…
goostavos on HN
Remi
From 1 comment
I found Remi https://github.com/dddomodossola/remi to be excellent for creating HTML frontends to python apps
kofejnik on HN
Wooey
From 1 comment
You may want to check out a project called Wooey. It's a drop-in-and-go frontend for your scripts kind of like Gooey[1], but web rather than native focused. [0]…
goostavos on HN
webview
From 1 comment
A similar project, but for C/C++/Go (using gtk-webkit, cocoa-webkit and mshtml): https://github.com/zserge/webview Does not require a web server (uses JS-to-native bindings…
zserge on HN