ReactPy - The Rebrand is Real!

[rmorshea]

In the next month or so this project will be renamed to ReactPy 🎉

The change will happen once we've completed all tasks from our 1.0 milestone. Afterwards there will be a final 1.0 release of IDOM along with any necessary follow-up patch releases. From there we will begin the process of renaming the project to ReactPy and moving it to a new repo on GitHub and on PyPI. The initial release of ReactPy will be identical to IDOM's 1.0 release. So to start out, you'll be able to swap any usages idom for reactpy without any trouble.

Let us know if you have any questions or comments about this change.

[Archmonger]

We probably should do this via a repo transfer + rename to retain github stars and commit history.

[rmorshea]

Yeah, I mostly created the repo so the link would go somewhere, but in retrospect that might be confusing.

[rmorshea]

Also acquired a reactpy organization on npmjs. This should allow us to create scoped packages under this name (e.g. @reactpy/client).

[rmorshea]

We're going to need a new logo! I have some ideas:

The one on the left being the react logo, but with snakes instead of electron paths. The right is using the erlenmeyer flask to imply a "reaction" which connects with the word "react". I think the one on the right is easier to read, but the one of the left gets more at what the project is doing. The lack of readability of the left could just be due to my lacking artistic abilities though.

But I don't have the skills to make these look more "professional". I know that @acivitillo had said that his team had a designer we might be able to use, but I'm not actually sure if they're still using this project (which if you see this Alessio, you're sponsoring the project, feel free to pull that if you aren't anymore).

Anyone have suggestions on what we should do?

[Archmonger]

Any logo is fine to move forward with, we can change it again after the rename.

[rmorshea]

@numpde, for now we're going to move forward with this draft of the logo, but we can make changes before we actually release.

[numpde]

[..], I'll commission some folks on Fiverr to come up with concepts and critique. [..]

.. didn't get good enough ideas for the budget.

[Archmonger]

An overview of the brand

ReactPy is a library for building user interfaces in Python without Javascript. ReactPy interfaces are made from components which look and behave similarly to those found in ReactJS. Designed with simplicity in mind, ReactPy can be used by those without web development experience while also being powerful enough to grow with your ambitions.

Description of the project

ReactJS for Python developers. This effectively allows users to develop websites while minimizing JavaScript code, but retaining the ease of development of ReactJS.

Goals

• Converting all ReactJS features into Python equivalents
• Bridge the gap between JavaScript and Python web development
• Simplify using native ReactJS code within ReactPy
• Ability to perform all common browser-related features directly within Python.

Target audience

Python developers who dislike, or don't know, JavaScript.

Amongst those who don't know Javascript, a fair portion are likely interested in building data applications or dashboards.

Competitors

Generic frameworks:

• Reacton
• HTMX
• Django Unicorn
• Django Sockpuppet
• Flask Meld

Data application/dashboard focused frameworks:

• Streamlit
• Panel
• Plotly Dash

Partially source from: https://www.django-unicorn.com/docs/#comparison

Style preferences

No strict style guidelines. But ideally, this icon should be uniquely recognizable within a favicon format.
We are currently leaning towards a green color scheme because cartoon snakes/pythons are green.

We are open to color scheme and design suggestions. All existing mockups exist only as the first concept design we thought up.

Deliverables

• Vectorized logo
• Vectorized logo with project name
• Vectorized favicon variant

Budget

No strict budget, but this project is OSS/unfunded so keeping the costs low is ideal.

Project timing

No strict timetables due to this being OSS/unfunded

Examples of existing design work

Ryan's snake variant and Mark's simplified snake variant.

What to avoid

Avoid logos that are too closely identical in both color and design to ReactJS or Python. Basically, if a browser has two tabs open we want at least some visual indication that our tab is unique.

[rmorshea]

I added some of my thoughts. Overall this seems like a fair summary.

[rmorshea]

Ok, still work to be done to rename and move the other idom-* projects. But idom has finally been renamed to reactpy! With that said, we're going to hold off on an initial release until everything else is ready to go (new logo, other packages, etc).

[Archmonger]

On that note, looks like both the old docs link and the new one completely broke during the migration.

[rmorshea]

Docs (at least till I link them up to reactpy.dev) can be found here:

http://reactpy.herokuapp.com

[Archmonger]

The link in the readme is broken then.