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+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+
+from spack.package import *
+
+
+class PyReacton(PythonPackage):
+    """
+    A way to write reusable components in a React-like way, to make Python-based UI's using
+    the ipywidgets ecosystem (ipywidgets, ipyvolume, bqplot, threejs, leaflet, ipyvuetify, ...).
+    """
+
+    homepage = "https://reacton.solara.dev/en/latest/"
+    pypi = "reacton/reacton-1.8.2.tar.gz"
+
+    license("MIT")
+
+    maintainers("jeremyfix")
+
+    version("1.8.2", sha256="eaa4eeeffd11688d2b60a49a9895fd299f2ecbe8614f1ad61d144c56edaf7304")
+
+    depends_on("py-hatchling", type="build")
+
+    depends_on("py-ipywidgets", type=("build", "run"))
+    depends_on("py-typing-extensions@4.1.1:", type=("build", "run"))