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24 alternatives to Wagtail 2.0 is a big release for our Python CMS

Wagtail 2.0 has arrived, and it's delicious.

Wagtail 2.0 is an open-source CMS built on Django for Python developers. It features a user-friendly admin interface and can be deployed in 15 minutes. This major release includes Draftail, a configurable rich text… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Wagtail 2.0 is a big release for our Python CMS launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Wagtail is a new, open-source Django CMS focused on flexibility and user experience. It was originally built for the Royal College of Art, but now we're able to share it with everyone. See https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail and http://wagtail.io (marketing site) and http://www.rca.ac.uk/ (first big site built on Wagtail) We're really proud of the user interface, and we hope that Wagtail will make it easy for Django developers to build beautiful, modern sites. Feedback very welcome! Tom Dyson, Technical Director at Torchbox (Wagtail developers)

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Open source rich text editor for the modern web. Contribute to Voog/wysihtml development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An experimental code editor for writing algorithms - ChrisKnott/Algojammer

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4MO

    I’m excited to share about Mesop - a new, open-source Python UI framework that enables Python developers to quickly build delightful web apps in a scalable way. A small team of us at Google have been developing Mesop as an unofficial 20% project for the past few months. A wide range of research and product teams at Google have been using it to rapidly build internal apps and we’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback internally so now we’re looking to get feedback from the open-source community. We think that Mesop provides a unique approach to building web UIs in Python - making it both easy…

    2024 · google.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Learn how to build a web app with Python and Django

    2018 · hellowebbooks.com · its alternatives →

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    🚀 Turbo AI website building tool

    2019 · weblium.com · its alternatives →

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    There are a lot of Python to web app frameworks going around these days but I wanted something that was a little more lightweight that just generates HTML pages and can be embedded in Flask or other Python web servers incrementally. PyVibe uses Python components to construct a page with styling that you can use in Flask, in a static site, or even in Pyodide.

    2023 · pyvibe.com · its alternatives →

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    A Pythonic wraparound of HTML/CSS/JS. Contribute to BrainStormYourWayIn/sierra development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I’m Jimmy, co-founder of Dropbase (https://www.dropbase.io). We are an internal tools builder for Python developers. All you have to do is import any Python scripts/libraries, declare UI components, and layer app permissions so you can share them with others. We’re a middle ground between Airplane and Retool—simpler UI creation than Airplane, more code-centered than Retool. UI building is declarative and you can bind Python scripts/functions to UI components. You can write Python scripts/functions using our App Studio with support from a Python Language…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Quill 1.0▲154

    An API driven rich text editor

    2016 · quilljs.com · its alternatives →

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    An ultra fast WSGI server for Python 3. Contribute to jamesroberts/fastwsgi development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14P5

    I am happy to announce the next major version of pywebview, a lightweight Python framework for building modern desktop applications with web technologies. The new version introduces powerful state management, network event handling, and significant improvements to Android support. See https://pywebview.flowrl.com/blog/pywebview6.html for details.

    2024 · pywebview.flowrl.com · its alternatives →

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    been working on this for nearly a year

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey all, I just wanted to share a project I've been working on for the past month. After years of heavy frameworks, I really like the idea of using htmx, but it’s a little too low level for me and needs a thin layer above it to facilitate things like components, better syntax with complex JS inside of an attribute, etc To try and solve this problem with a very minimal stack (golang + htmx) that I've been really enjoying, I'm building this project to cater to my needs and was thinking it would be useful for other developers.

    2024 · htmgo.dev · its alternatives →

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    A Hacker News lookalike written in Python/Django, powering https://news.python.sc - sebst/pythonic-news

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    We needed a JS-first WYSIWYG DOCX editor and couldn't find a solid OSS option, most were either commercial or abandoned. As an experiment, we gave Claude Code the OOXML spec, a concrete editor architecture, and a Playwright-based test suite. The agent iterated in a (Ralph) loop over a few nights and produced a working editor from scratch. Core text editing works today. Tables and images are functional but still incomplete. MIT licensed.

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    If Google News had a Python library. Contribute to kotartemiy/pygooglenews development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build and share delightful machine learning apps, all in Python. 🌟 Star to support our work! - gradio-app/gradio

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey! A while back, I wrote a templating engine (MIT License), which I mostly use for small side projects, either static or ssr generated. Simplicity is one of the main goals. I'll be happy to answer any questions. The main goal for sharing it is to simply get some feedback. Best, Emil

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The best book on Django. Period.

    2015 · feldroy.com · its alternatives →

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    Having created Jedi in 2012, I started ZubanLS in 2020 to advance Python tooling. It understands Mypy config files and passes >95% of the relevant Mypy tests. AMA.

    2025 · zubanls.com · its alternatives →

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    🚄🐍 expressPython - A small Python editor for learning and competitive programming. - JaDogg/expressPython

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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