Flexx is a Python tookit for creating user interfaces (UI's), that uses web technology for its rendering. You can use Flexx to create desktop applications as well as web applications. Flexx can also be used from within the Jupyter notebook.

Flexx is pure Python, and has no dependencies other than the browser that's already installed on the system. To run apps in desktop-mode, we recommend having Firefox installed.

Flexx consists of several modules which can be individually used; none of the modules are imported by default.

• ui - the ui toolkit, most people will use just this.
• webruntime - launch a web runtime (xul application, browser etc.).
• pyscript - Python to JavaScript compiler.
• properties - or util.properties? - A property system similar to IPython's traitlets or bokeh's properties.
• util - various utilities related to application development.
• lui - an experimental lightweight UI toolkit based on OpenGL designed to work everywhere that can be used as a fallback.

Flexx is still very much a work in progress. Please don't go use it just yet. The ui part is not even working yet. The exception might be the webruntime and pyscript modules, although their API's may still change as well.