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Any Custom Frontend with Gradio's Backend

gradio.Server: Any Custom Frontend with Gradio's Backend Published April 1, 2026 Update on GitHub Upvote 38 +32 yuvraj sharma ysharma Follow Abubakar Abid abidlabs Follow A few weeks ago, we wrote about one-shotting full web apps with gr.HTML : building rich, interactive frontends entirely inside Gradio using custom HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. That unlocked a lot. But what if that's not enough? What if you want to build with your own frontend framework entirely like React, Svelte, or even plain HTML/JS, while still benefiting from Gradio's queuing system, API infrastructure, MCP support, and ZeroGPU on Spaces? That's exactly the problem gradio.Server solves. And it changes what's possible with Gradio and Hugging Face Spaces. What We Wanted to Build Text Behind Image : an editor where you upload a photo, the background gets removed using an ML model, and then you place stylized text between the foreground subject and the background. The text appears to sit behind the person or object in the image. This needs: A drag-and-drop canvas with layered rendering (background → text → foreground) A rich control panel …

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