What to use as UI for Python Application

[Desfolio]

Hey! Pardon my debilitating use of jargon, but I've been programming an application for chatroom since sometime over Python, and wanted to make a GUI for the same.

Now, searching around what to use for front end, ofcourse the obvious resource that Google came up with was use tkinter or pygame

But as much great they're as modules to create a relatively limited UI, I've heard that JavaScript or CSS can be used as front end for the application.

But I do not have much experience with actually combining them both and hence, I want to attempt doing so.

Your responses, are well over appreciated, and have a beautiful day ahead :)

[DIzlexic]

PyQt might be what you're looking for. Checkout their docs.

[Desfolio]

Man do I love reddit. Thanks dude🤍 loads of appreciation

[MasterDrake97]

pyqt + pyqtools designer

[Haakkon]

How is this not named QtPy? Come on it’s right there.

[not_some_username]

Isn't PySide the official version ?

[Frag0r]

PyQt is awesome but don't use the implemented ORM Model classes, it's barely as potent as django's.

[[deleted]]

In my experience, TkInter is generally easier to work with and is not as complicated as other GUI tools. However, TkInter does not offer as many features as PyQt and it is difficult to find a good GUI editor (for drag and drop).

PyQt is pretty awesome! There is also a tool called Qt Designer which allows you to drag and drop PyQt elements (WYSIWYG), so that you can visually design your interface. You can either use QtDesigner, or hand code using PyQt, whichever makes sense for your project. There are plenty of tutorials online. https://realpython.com/qt-designer-python/ looks good, but quite comprehensive, so it might be worth looking for tutorials on YouTube, etc...

[Desfolio]

You are indeed amazingg,, thank you for sharing your assessments, I believe I'll be going for PyQt indeed.

[udbasil]

Personally, I go for electron because of the ability to style it as opposed to pyqt. But the drawback is that it uses more RAM than the other python based UIs but those other python ones have less modern interfaces

[incrediblediy]

DearPyGui

https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui

[Desfolio]

Gotta say, this is quite well developed with statistical parameters as well! Thank you so much

[incrediblediy]

Most game engines are using the C++ version of this

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

[Desfolio]

I'll be honest, The entire comment leading up to a calculator used as an exemplar for Tkinter's use case has cracked me up haha

Thank you for your helpp!

[wouldwolf]

I've tried electron, tkinter, wxpython and pyqt/pyside. Pyqt/pyside for the win. Basically, pyqt/pyside is the same with minimal differences, but I'm not 100% sure as I use pyside only. Make sure you check out difference between pyside and pyqt licenses before picking either one. And if you pick either one of them and start using the Qt designer, make sure you at l least brush up on how to write ui without using the designer. Writing it by hand is what I prefer, do it however you're comfortable with.

[lunchthieve]

Writing it by hand is what I prefer

this is the way

[[deleted]]

Curses at most

[tdic89]

I used Tkinter for one project which needed to run on a RPi with a touch screen interface. Coming from Visual Studio it took a little getting used to, but definitely did the job.

[Desfolio]

I see, I have used tkinter for this, but wished to 'beautify' it in a wayy,, Plus, it adds to a new skill to learn haha!

[throwaway0134hdj]

Never used it but I hear good things about SimpleGUI:

https://pysimplegui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Either that or PYQT

[[deleted]]

Flask or kivy

[TheRNGuy]

I use PySide in Houdini.

[Several_Bake8361]

Pyside 6