Mercury
Dev tools
notebook publishing
SHOW HN2022
61points
13comments
#868of 2,570 in 2022
Top 34%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
0 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.
Design: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Easy way to turn notebooks into shareable apps
From 1 comment
Hi, creator here. Mercury is an easy way to convert notebooks into interactive web apps, where user can tweak input parameters by widgets and click RUN button to execute notebook…
pplonski86 on HN
Objections
Widget choices cannot be set dynamically
From 1 comment
You can't dynamically set values in widgets. All values (choices and ranges) should be set upfront.
pplonski86 on HN
YAML header is an odd choice versus existing markup
From 1 comment
Why yaml? The web already has a markup language.
sankao on HN
Requests
Support for kernels beyond Python
From 1 comment
Looks really interesting. I tried Voila a while ago and struggled to really get it to do what I wanted. This was a year ago though, so maybe things have improved. Does Mercury…
phillc73 on HN
Dynamic widget choices
From 1 comment
Hi Cool tool. One question: with Yaml being used to fill in the possible choice of a selection-box, how do I make the choices dynamic?
polotics on HN
Questions
How does it differ from Voila?
From 1 comment
How is this better than Voila, which is developed by the Jupyter Notebook team? https://github.com/voila-dashboards/voila
tmabraham on HN
How to deploy it yourself
From 1 comment
Looks really interesting. I tried Voila a while ago and struggled to really get it to do what I wanted. This was a year ago though, so maybe things have improved. Does Mercury…
phillc73 on HN
How to display pandas dataframes
From 1 comment
Ok, still could be useful, as indeed the one kernel per session design of alternatives like AppMode or Voilà is a bit limiting. While you're here: how do I best display a pandas…
polotics on HN
Alternatives named
Voila
From 1 comment
How is this better than Voila, which is developed by the Jupyter Notebook team? https://github.com/voila-dashboards/voila
tmabraham on HN
AppMode
From 1 comment
Ok, still could be useful, as indeed the one kernel per session design of alternatives like AppMode or Voilà is a bit limiting. While you're here: how do I best display a pandas…
polotics on HN