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Reflex Has a Free API You Should Know About

Reflex lets you build full-stack web apps entirely in Python. It compiles to a React frontend + FastAPI backend — no JavaScript needed, but you get a modern React app.

Why Reflex is Different

A data scientist needed an internal tool with charts, forms, and real-time updates. Learning React would take months. With Reflex, they built it in Python and got a production React app — compiled automatically.

Key Features:

  • Pure Python — Write frontend and backend in Python
  • Compiles to React — Production-grade frontend output
  • 60+ Components — Charts, tables, forms, modals, and more
  • Real-Time — WebSocket state sync between frontend and backend
  • One-Command Deploy — Deploy to Reflex Cloud or self-host

Quick Start

pip install reflex
reflex init
reflex run
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Example

import reflex as rx

class State(rx.State):
    count: int = 0
    def increment(self):
        self.count += 1

def index():
    return rx.center(
        rx.vstack(
            rx.heading(State.count),
            rx.button("Increment", on_click=State.increment),
        )
    )

app = rx.App()
app.add_page(index)
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Why Choose Reflex

  1. Python-only — no JavaScript, HTML, or CSS needed
  2. React output — production-quality compiled frontend
  3. Real-time — automatic state sync via WebSockets

Check out Reflex docs to get started.


Building Python web apps? Check out my Apify actors or email spinov001@gmail.com for custom solutions.

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