E170: From Idea to Working Web App Using Only Python with Reflex
Mar 25, 2025•39 min
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Episode description
Nikhil Rao is Co-Founder of Reflex, the open source framework to build and deploy web apps in python. Their project, also called reflex, has over 22K stars on GitHub and is a library to build full-stack web apps.
Reflex has raised $5M from investors including Lux Capital.
In this episode, we dig into:
The power of deploying apps using only Python
Balancing abstraction and code level access for users
The challenges low code frameworks have had becoming production-grade
The apps users are building with Reflex
How he thought about Reflex Cloud
Their vision to be as big as React
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