Use streamlit in our production dashboard

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Hello all, in my company we are building an LLM platform where we are going to provide many different services through our API. In order that a user registers, pays, logs in and creates API token (plus various other basic stuff) we were thinking of creating a nice dashboard in streamlit (instead of react - we are thinking of having in all stuff python).
From your experience is it ok? Do you believe that we could support a production dashboard like that?

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Yes, I believe you can acheive most, if not everything you mentioned by hosting your dashboards on Snowflake. Check out the following page for more info.

Streamlit on Snowflake

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I see, thank you very much!

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You’re welcome!

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I write this with best intentions to help the community.

With all do respect to our fellow streamliters who defend and love the platform, you gotta a hammer and not all problems are nails.

I am yet to see a full featured app in streamlit with all bells and whistles you would expect in a “product”. Nearly all exemples you see there, some of them quite impressive, are still targetting a particular problem alone (most are a simple page that does one single thing).

My personal experience with Streamlit is that is absolutely the fastest thing I have seen to write functional apps (the chatbot using LLM being the highlight). But as you dive into trying to build a fully functioning app under this framework, you will hit lots of roadblocks, and will find yourself doing workarounds to circumvent the rules.

Some nice examples to think about:

  • customising layout (it is VERY hard to break out of the default design and experience)
  • navigation (e.g. user settings, pages that exist in the user journey but are not explicitly displayed on a left bar menu, etc)
  • Event handling (this one nearly made me go mad, trying to figure out how it is intended to work… have a look at buttons as an example)

Keeping the above (and more) in mind, if your solution still fits, happy days!

I have few things in production, but had to give up on all the above (and still have tons of unsafe_html flags throughout my code.

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Actually I have seen all the possible issues you mention and one of the UI parts is the custom CSS that someone may need to use. Based on the others I was thinking mainly of user login and registration parts. Of course I fully agree with all your comments and thank you very much for your detailed feedback!

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