Mercury
Dev tools
notebook to web app framework
SHOW HN2023
131points
31comments
#483of 3,109 in 2023
Top 16%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
6 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score -0.02.
Design: 1 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 2 againstIdea: 3 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good for quick demos and reports
From 2 comments
Co-creator of Voila here. Voila is rather un-opinionated about what you can run in it. While it offers excellent support for ipywidgets, it's certainly not confined to that. One…
maartenbreddels on HNMercury is for quick demos. It is not a full web framework. The simplicity of the framework is very important for us. We hope to extend widgets offering in the near future. You…
pplonski86 on HN
Useful for customized client demos
From 1 comment
Really cool stuff. I run demos for clients with the data my company sells and this will be great for quick customized demos/use cases.
joewhale on HN
Objections
Limited number of widgets
From 1 comment
Mercury certainly seems worthy of keeping an eye out. Voila is the obvious competitor to this. There are also different oranges and apples such as Dash, Streamlit, Panel:…
sireat on HN
Deployment unclear, especially in Docker
From 1 comment
Mercury certainly seems worthy of keeping an eye out. Voila is the obvious competitor to this. There are also different oranges and apples such as Dash, Streamlit, Panel:…
sireat on HN
Mobile layout and CSS issues on some browsers
From 2 comments
Off-topic: there are some CSS issue on the site in Firefox for Android. I wish developers care more about non chrome users.
ris58h on HNLooks good! I’ll certainly give it a try. Just FYI, the layout in the “deployment” box near the bottom of the splash page is very shrunken on iPhone - so narrow that there’s…
rorads on HN
Requests
More widgets
From 1 comment
Mercury certainly seems worthy of keeping an eye out. Voila is the obvious competitor to this. There are also different oranges and apples such as Dash, Streamlit, Panel:…
sireat on HN
Clearer self-hosting and deployment docs
From 1 comment
Mercury certainly seems worthy of keeping an eye out. Voila is the obvious competitor to this. There are also different oranges and apples such as Dash, Streamlit, Panel:…
sireat on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Voila
From 1 comment
Interesting. I wonder how it compares to Voila. What I like about Voila is that you can use ipywidgets natively and then render Jupyter Notebooks directly to a web-app. Maybe…
queens_ridge on HN
How does it compare to Streamlit
From 1 comment
Wow! It's so cool! How is it better than streamlit though? Just because of the better integration with Jupyter notebook?
souvic on HN
Alternatives named
Voila
From 2 comments
Interesting. I wonder how it compares to Voila. What I like about Voila is that you can use ipywidgets natively and then render Jupyter Notebooks directly to a web-app. Maybe…
queens_ridge on HNMercury certainly seems worthy of keeping an eye out. Voila is the obvious competitor to this. There are also different oranges and apples such as Dash, Streamlit, Panel:…
sireat on HN
Streamlit
From 2 comments
Mercury certainly seems worthy of keeping an eye out. Voila is the obvious competitor to this. There are also different oranges and apples such as Dash, Streamlit, Panel:…
sireat on HNWow! It's so cool! How is it better than streamlit though? Just because of the better integration with Jupyter notebook?
souvic on HN
Solara
From 2 comments
Co-creator of Voila here. Voila is rather un-opinionated about what you can run in it. While it offers excellent support for ipywidgets, it's certainly not confined to that. One…
maartenbreddels on HNThanks for sharing, I’ll give it a try! The last few weeks I've used a similar framework called solara to convert my Jupyter notebooks into web apps…
kolibril13 on HN
Dash
From 1 comment
Mercury certainly seems worthy of keeping an eye out. Voila is the obvious competitor to this. There are also different oranges and apples such as Dash, Streamlit, Panel:…
sireat on HN
Papermill
From 1 comment
I'm using Papermill to operationalize Notebooks (https://github.com/nteract/papermill), it e.g. also has airflow support. I'm really happy with papermill for automatic notebook…
sambucini on HN