React in Python with Pyodide

From web servers to end-to-end Data pipelines, Python has become a ubiquitous tool for building all sorts of programs and software. With powerful built-in libraries and an incredible number of third-party libraries, the Python ecosystem makes it easy to quickly get your project started. In fact, building user interfaces (UIs) is not an exception: PyQT allows you to create cross-platform desktop applications, whereas libraries like Dash allows you to create full-fledged web applications (including the UI) within a single Python script....

January 19, 2022 · 10 min · Xing Han Lu

Pyodide 0.19.0 release

Pyodide 0.19 is a major release focused on improving the build system, updating scientific computing packages, and improving the workflow for loading Python code. Here are a few highlights. For the complete list of changes see the changelog. Removal of function pointer cast emulation Some Python C extensions use function pointer casting, which is an unspecified behavior according to the C specification. However, all common native C compilers generate code that works fine....

January 10, 2022 · 4 min · Hood Chatham and Roman Yurchak, on behalf of the Pyodide team

Pyodide becomes member of the Open Source Collective

We would like to announce that Pyodide is now a member of the Open Source Collective (OSC), which will act as the project’s fiscal host. The Pyodide project compiles Python and the scientific stack to WebAssembly using Emscripten. Pyodide was created in 2018 by Michael Droettboom at Mozilla as part of the Iodide project. Later in 2021 Pyodide became an independent open-source project, and the current announcement completes this transition....

November 10, 2021 · 1 min · Roman Yurchak and Hood Chatham, on behalf of the Pyodide team