#525: NiceGUI Goes 3.0

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Building a UI in Python usually means choosing between quick and limited or powerful and painful.
0:06.4	What if you could write modern component-based web apps in pure Python and still keep full control?
0:12.4	Nice GUI pronounced nice guy sits on Fast API with a Vue Quasar front end and gives you real components, live updates over web sockets,
0:22.3	and it's running in production at Saversoig, a German robotic company.
0:25.9	On this episode, I'm talking with Nice Guys Creators, Radia Trappa, and Falco Schindler,
0:31.4	about how it works, where it shines, and what's coming next.
0:35.2	With version 3.0 releasing around the same time as this episode drops,
0:39.3	we spend time at the end celebrating the 3.0 release.
0:43.6	This is Talk Python to Me, episode 525, recorded September 25th, 2025.
0:50.8	Talk Python to Me, yeah, we ready to roll.
0:53.8	Upgrading the code.
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