Where are complete open-source apps via NiceGUI? Or nicegui-awesome?

[HackYardo]

First Check

• I added a very descriptive title here.
• I have checked the FAQs for a similar question and didn't find it.
• I used the GitHub search to find a similar question and didn't find it.
• I searched the NiceGUI documentation, with the integrated search.
• I already searched online "How to X in NiceGUI" and didn't find any information.

Example Code

gh search repos nicegui
# gh is the cli of github

Description

• NiceGUI is a hot repo with 15k stars now, but I can't find many nicegui apps at GitHub since 2023?
• Maybe only the rosys is a fairly complete app, but it is made by the authors of NiceGUI.
• There are doc, tool, example, but where are the complete apps?

NiceGUI Version

3.5.0

Python Version

3.14.2

Browser

Firefox

Operating System

Linux

Additional Context

No response

[falkoschindler]

Hi @HackYardo,

I don't quite understand your question. gh search repos nicegui lists 858 repositories. And according to https://github.com/zauberzeug/nicegui/network/dependents, there are 2333 repositories and 188 packages using NiceGUI.

[HackYardo]

But most of 858 repos are tool, demo, example, template, etc, rather than app, such as bluesky, temu, instagram, googleMap, bbcNews.

[falkoschindler]

The examples you mentioned - Instagram, Google Maps, Temu, BBC News - are commercial products built by large companies. These would never be open-sourced regardless of what framework they use, because they are the business. You won't find open-source versions of these for React or Django either.

That said, you raise a fair point. Frameworks like Ruby on Rails and Django do have flagship open-source applications - Mastodon, Discourse, Ghost, GitLab, Home Assistant, Sentry, and others. So the underlying question "where are the complete NiceGUI apps?" is legitimate.

A few thoughts on why NiceGUI's ecosystem looks the way it does:

1. Framework maturity: Rails, Django, and React have been around for 10-20 years with massive communities. NiceGUI had its breakthrough about 3 years ago, so it's still relatively young. Building a community and ecosystem takes time.

2. NiceGUI's sweet spot: NiceGUI excels at dashboards, internal tools, data visualization, and robotics interfaces (like RoSys). These types of applications are often company-specific and proprietary by nature. The big open-source apps tend to be platform/infrastructure software (CMS, forums, chat apps, DevOps tools).

3. It's evolving: As the ecosystem matures, we may see more substantial open-source projects emerge. The 2333 dependents and growing community are promising signs.

If you're looking for inspiration, the examples/ folder showcases many patterns, and browsing the dependents can surface interesting projects.

[HackYardo]

I do plan to make a complex enough app via NiceGUI, so I search community for inspiration. Thanks for ur detailed and clear answer!