Maarten Breddels
Maarten Breddels is an entrepreneur and ex-scientist mainly working with Python, C++, and Javascript in the Jupyter ecosystem. He is the creator of Solara, ipyvolume, and Vaex and Co-founder of Widgetti. His expertise includes fast numerical computation, API design, 3D visualization, and building data apps. He has a Bachelor's in ICT, a Master's, and Ph.D. in Astronomy, and he likes to solve real problems.
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Many Python frameworks are suitable for creating basic dashboards or prototypes but struggle with more complex ones. Taking lessons from the JavaScript community, the experts on building UI’s, we created a new framework called Solara. Solara scales to much more complex apps and compute-intensive dashboards. Built on the Jupyter stack, Solara apps and its reusable components run in the Jupyter notebook and on its own production quality server based on Starlette/FastAPI.
Solara has a declarative API that is designed for dynamic and complex UIs yet is easy to write. Reactive variables power our state management, which automatically triggers rerenders. Our component-centric architecture stimulates code reusability, and hot reloading promotes efficient workflows. With our rich set of UI and data-focused components, Solara spans the entire spectrum from rapid prototyping to robust, complex dashboards.