Reflex

This week, smol machines hosted 3 events for SF TECH WEEK by a16z. On Monday, we co-hosted Agent Matcha Popup with Monid and TinyFish. Shengkun Y.'s team gives agents infinite possibilities through tools, while smol machines provides the flexible infrastructure agents run on. Tuesday, BinBin H. spoke on an open-source-focused panel alongside Alek Petuskey from Reflex and Ernest McCarter from General Translation. The discussion started with the origins of open-source projects, covered how open-source companies generate revenue, and concluded with the outlook for OSS in the AI age. Wednesday concluded with a panel that we hosted with Reflex and Byteport, where Jayram Palamadai, Mohamed Otefi, and BinBin took a deep dive into the infrastructure landscape and where industry gaps still lie. The open-source community and foundational work in infrastructure are the two most critical parts of smol machines. We are honored to be recognized as leaders in these fields and to partner with the best companies in the space to host events together.

We had a great time bringing together open-source builders at TECH WEEK by a16z, featuring Alek Petuskey from Reflex, BinBin H. from smol machines, and Ernest McCarter from General Translation. The conversation explored why developers choose to build in the open, how open-source communities grow, and what it takes to build a sustainable business around open source. Huge thanks to everyone who joined us, and to Reflex and General Translation for co-hosting this event! Watch the full panel here: https://lnkd.in/gSV7RyMX A few highlights from the conversation ↓

One of the things I love about working at Reflex: we decided we wanted to make things more performant, and after a few weeks of work, 0.9.12 is here and significantly faster all around. More to come in the next version too. So i decided to make this video opus 5.5 to show some numbers. https://lnkd.in/dZEg8EPh

We released the most performant charting library, xy last month. It can render billions of points. Now it's available in Reflex Build. Connect a Postgres, MySQL, or MSSQL database and ask Build to create a chart. The agent reads the schema, writes the query, and adds the chart to your app. xy makes billion-point charts feel like normal charts. You can plot the full table and zoom into any range without downsampling it or waiting minutes. It's 523x faster than Plotly at 10M points, and capable of rendering 10B+ points. The generated chart is regular Reflex code. It can update State, drive other components in the app, and deploy with everything else. This is live now on build.reflex.dev

We’re making big improvements to the Reflex MCP. The next version will let Claude Code and Codex agents running locally connect directly to your Reflex workspace. Your agent will be able to list projects, use your team’s shared knowledge and themes, deploy apps, manage deployments, manage users, and more. So instead of only helping you write a Reflex app, your agent can work with the rest of the platform around it. You can ask it to find an existing project, make a change using your team’s context, and deploy it, all from your local agent. Very excited about this one.

Reflex 0.9.8 is out! The main new feature is preview mode: reflex run --env preview It hot reloads a freshly built frontend locally, mounted into the backend. So you get a faster feedback loop that is closer to what you will actually deploy. Also included: better asset caching, plugin routes, GCP deploy support, and a bunch of fixes. Release notes: https://lnkd.in/e7jipXgP