Building a UI in Python usually means choosing between "quick and limited" or "powerful and painful." What if you could write modern, component-based web apps in pure Python and still keep full control? NiceGUI, pronounced "Nice Guy" sits on FastAPI with a Vue/Quasar front end, gives you real components, live updates over websockets, and it’s running in production at Zauberzeug, a German robotic company. On this episode, I’m talking with NiceGUI’s creators, Rodja Trappe and Falko Schindler, about how it works, where it shines, and what’s coming next. With version 3.0 releasing around the same time this episode comes out, we spend the end of the episode celebrating the 3.0 release.

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Links from the show

Rodja Trappe: github.com
Falko Schindler: github.com

NiceGUI 3.0.0 release: github.com
Full LLM/Agentic AI docs instructions for NiceGUI: github.com

Zauberzeug: zauberzeug.com
NiceGUI: nicegui.io
NiceGUI GitHub Repository: github.com
NiceGUI Authentication Examples: github.com
NiceGUI v3.0.0rc1 Release: github.com
Valkey: valkey.io
Caddy Web Server: caddyserver.com
JustPy: justpy.io
Tailwind CSS: tailwindcss.com
Quasar ECharts v5 Demo: quasar-echarts-v5.netlify.app
AG Grid: ag-grid.com
Quasar Framework: quasar.dev
NiceGUI Interactive Image Documentation: nicegui.io
NiceGUI 3D Scene Documentation: nicegui.io

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