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date: 2025-08-20
title: Reflex vs Streamlit
description: "A head‑to‑head comparison of two Python frameworks for building fast, interactive web apps"
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image: /blog/reflex_vs_streamlit.png
meta: [
{
"name": "keywords",
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### Reflex

**Strengths**
**Strengths**

- **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

**Strengths**
**Strengths**

- **60 + built-in components** with Tailwind styling props; modern look by default.
- **Wrap any React component** – easy path to custom or third-party widgets.
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### Streamlit

**Strengths**
**Strengths**

- **Rich core widgets** (`st.slider`, `st.dataframe`, `st.map`, etc.) that “just work” with one line.

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### Reflex

**Strengths**
**Strengths**

- **Server-side state per session** – Python variables persist, enabling multi-step flows and user-specific data.

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### Reflex

**Strengths**
**Strengths**

- **Standard web app architecture** – FastAPI backend + static React assets; easy to containerize and scale behind a load balancer.

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### Reflex

**Strengths**
**Strengths**

- Rapidly growing open-source community; React + Python combo means huge potential for extensions.

- Active core team, frequent releases, YC-backed funding.

**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.

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.
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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---
author: Ahmad Al Hakim
date: 2025-09-02
title: Reflex Build - The Fastest Way to Go From Idea to App
description: Reflex Build turns prompts into production-ready apps. No boilerplate. No wasted time. Just results.
image: /blog/reflex_build.png
meta: [
{
"name": "keywords",
"content": "Reflex Build, AI Builder, Reflex AI, app development, AI-generated apps, dashboards, developer productivity"
}
]
---

```python exec
from pcweb.pages.docs import ai_builder
```

## Stop Starting From Scratch

Every developer knows the feeling: you’ve got a clear idea in your head, maybe even a sketch on a whiteboard. But before you can test it with real users, you have to grind through setup. Wiring state, scaffolding pages, connecting a database, writing the same boilerplate you wrote last week.

By the time the foundation is ready, the excitement is gone. What if you could skip straight to the fun part?

## Meet Reflex Build

[Reflex Build](https://build.reflex.dev/) is our AI-powered builder that takes a simple prompt — *“Give me a sales dashboard with charts, filters, and a database connection”* and turns it into a working Reflex app.

Not a toy. Not a mockup. A real app you can run, edit, and deploy.

Think of it as your co-founder who handles all the boring scaffolding so you can focus on the parts that matter.

## From Prompt to Product

Here’s what a typical workflow looks like with Reflex Build:

1. **Connect your data** — This step is optional, but if you have external data, paste in a database URL or choose an integration to load the data.
2. **Describe your app** — tell Reflex Build what you want: *“AI-driven support dashboard with ticket search, alert timelines, and user profiles.”*
3. **Watch it appear** — in less than a minute, you’ve got pages, components, and state wired together.

At this point you’re not staring at boilerplate. You’re clicking through a live app that already feels real.

```python exec
import reflex as rx
from reflex_image_zoom import image_zoom

def render_image():
return rx.el.div(
image_zoom(
rx.image(
src="/blog/reflex_build_example.png",
class_name="p-2 rounded-md h-auto",
border=f"0.81px solid {rx.color('slate', 5)}",
),
class_name="rounded-md overflow-hidden",
),
rx.text(
'Generated from the prompt: "Give me a sales dashboard with charts, filters, and a database connection."',
class_name="text-sm text-slate-10 mt-2 italic",
),
class_name="w-full flex flex-col rounded-md cursor-pointer py-2",
)
```

```python eval

rx.el.div(render_image())

```

## Why Reflex Build Feels Different

There are plenty of “AI app generators” out there. Most stop at prototypes, pretty wireframes you can’t actually ship. Reflex Build is different. It's a Python first AI builder that creates enterprise ready apps you can take straight to production:

- **Production-first**: It generates actual Reflex code you can extend, not locked-in templates.
- **Theming built-in**: Charts, forms, and tables inherit your app’s look automatically.
- **Real integrations**: Connect to databases, APIs, and auth providers the same way you would by hand.
- **Fast iteration**: Change the prompt, regenerate, and keep what you like.

Instead of bolting AI on top of your workflow, Reflex Build is woven directly into it.

## Who It’s For

- **Solo devs** who want to move fast without drowning in boilerplate.
- **Product teams** that need working scaffolds to customize and ship.
- **Founders** who want to turn an idea into a testable app over a weekend.
- **Enterprise teams** that require production ready apps, real integrations, and the flexibility to extend in Python.

If you’re building dashboards, admin panels, or internal tools, Reflex Build is like starting a sprint with 70% of the work already done.

## The Future of App Development

We believe the future isn’t *AI replacing developers*. It’s AI working with developers in Python, where enterprise teams already build their most critical apps. Open up Reflex Build, type your first prompt, and see what you can create in minutes.

Get started with [Reflex Build]({ai_builder.overview.what_is_reflex_build.path}) and start building apps today!