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I would love to hear what your experience is.

We've been using Pynecone for a bit and are coming up against some problems.

For example trying to write a wrapper for AG Grid there is no way to pass a custom class attribute so you can't style the output with a theme.

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I found it very difficult to do things like rich text boxes for a ChatGPT clone I was writing aimed at being child friendly. Ended up giving up when it became a bit spaghetti-ish and after the documentation stopped being useful beyond hello world apps.

I also built a chatgpt UI that was focused on early readers and kids. Feel free to clone and modify if you like.

https://github.com/paul-gauthier/easy-chat

Cofounder of Pynecone here - thanks for the feedback. We’re prioritizing improving our docs and example apps in the upcoming weeks and will have a ChatGPT clone example. Definitely want to improve the onboarding experience and showcase these more complex use cases.

Congratulations with the release of this very exciting framework! Can't wait to try it out.

That’s awesome - it looks like a really interesting project. Would you be able to address the specific criticism raised by parent, on rich text boxes? Is this a case of a documentation shortfall, or something more fundamental?

We want to support any UI feature that you can build with React/NextJS. We will expand our core to include components like rich text inputs but we also have a way to wrap any React library so you're not locked into the components we provide: https://pynecone.io/docs/advanced-guide/wrapping-react

Please, add examples of rich authn and authz flows with 2FA and email integration for account verification.

Hey! Don't take my comment as too negative, I do like the idea & enjoyed using Pynecone right to the point I got stuck. Best of luck improving it, I'll definitely circle back in the future

My projects are simple dashboards for internal use so I prioritize ugly and functional over aesthetic. technical verdicts from someone with more UI experience/affinity would likely help a lot more than my opinion.

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