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date: 2025-08-20
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title: Reflex vs Streamlit
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description: "A head‑to‑head comparison of two Python frameworks for building fast, interactive web apps"
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### Reflex
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**Strengths**
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-**End-to-end Python stack** – backend (FastAPI/Uvicorn) and frontend (compiled React/Next.js) are generated from pure Python. No HTML/CSS/JS required and data/state flow is automatic via WebSockets.
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### Reflex
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-**60 + built-in components** with Tailwind styling props; modern look by default.
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-**Wrap any React component** – easy path to custom or third-party widgets.
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### Streamlit
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-**Rich core widgets** (`st.slider`, `st.dataframe`, `st.map`, etc.) that “just work” with one line.
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### Reflex
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-**Server-side state per session** – Python variables persist, enabling multi-step flows and user-specific data.
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### Reflex
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-**Standard web app architecture** – FastAPI backend + static React assets; easy to containerize and scale behind a load balancer.
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### Reflex
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- Rapidly growing open-source community; React + Python combo means huge potential for extensions.
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- Active core team, frequent releases, YC-backed funding.
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**Weaknesses**
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-**Pick Reflex** when you foresee **multi-page navigation, real-time features, auth, or database-backed workflows** and want to stay entirely in Python without handing off to front-end engineers.
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Both tools lower the barrier to web apps for Python developers—your decision hinges on whether ultimate simplicity (Streamlit) or full-stack power and structure (Reflex) better fits your project’s trajectory.
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Both tools lower the barrier to web apps for Python developers—your decision hinges on whether ultimate simplicity (Streamlit) or full-stack power and structure (Reflex) better fits your project’s trajectory.
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