plotly.js

Plotly.js is a standalone Javascript data visualization library, and it also powers the Python and R modules named plotly in those respective ecosystems (referred to as Plotly.py and Plotly.R).

Plotly.js can be used to produce dozens of chart types and visualizations, including statistical charts, 3D graphs, scientific charts, SVG and tile maps, financial charts and more.

Contact us for Plotly.js consulting, dashboard development, application integration, and feature additions.

Table of contents

• Quick start options
• Modules
• Building plotly.js
• Bugs and feature requests
• Documentation
• Contributing
• Community
• Notable Contributors
• Copyright and license

Quick start options

Install with npm

npm install plotly.js-dist

and import plotly.js as

import Plotly from 'plotly.js-dist'
// Or using require,
var Plotly = require('plotly.js-dist')

Use the plotly.js CDN hosted by Fastly

<!-- Latest compiled and minified plotly.js JavaScript -->
<script src="https://cdn.plot.ly/plotly-latest.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<!-- OR use a specific plotly.js release (e.g. version 1.52.3) -->
<script src="https://cdn.plot.ly/plotly-1.52.3.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<!-- OR an un-minified version is also available -->
<script src="https://cdn.plot.ly/plotly-latest.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

and use the Plotly object in the window scope.

Fastly supports Plotly.js with free CDN service. Read more at https://www.fastly.com/open-source

Download the latest release

Latest Release on GitHub

and use the plotly.js dist file(s). More info here.

Read the Getting started page for more examples.

Modules

Starting in v1.15.0, plotly.js ships with several partial bundles (more info here).

Starting in v1.39.0, plotly.js publishes distributed npm packages with no dependencies. For example, run npm install plotly.js-geo-dist and add import Plotly from 'plotly.js-geo-dist'; to your code to start using the plotly.js geo package.

If none of the distributed npm packages meet your needs, and you would like to manually pick which plotly.js modules to include, you'll first need to run npm install plotly.js and then create a custom bundle by using plotly.js/lib/core, and loading only the trace types that you need (e.g. pie or choropleth). The recommended way to do this is by creating a bundling file. For example, in CommonJS:

// in custom-plotly.js
var Plotly = require('plotly.js/lib/core');

// Load in the trace types for pie, and choropleth
Plotly.register([
    require('plotly.js/lib/pie'),
    require('plotly.js/lib/choropleth')
]);

module.exports = Plotly;

Then elsewhere in your code:

var Plotly = require('./path/to/custom-plotly');

Non-ascii characters

Important: the plotly.js code base contains some non-ascii characters. Therefore, please make sure to set the charset attribute to "utf-8" in the script tag that imports your plotly.js bundle. For example:

<script src="my-plotly-bundle.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Building plotly.js

Building instructions using webpack, browserify and other build frameworks are in BUILDING.md

Bugs and feature requests

Have a bug or a feature request? Please open a Github issue keeping in mind the issue guidelines. You may also want to read about how changes get made to Plotly.js

Documentation

Official plotly.js documentation is hosted at https://plotly.com/javascript.

These pages are generated by the Plotly graphing-library-docs repo built with Jekyll and publicly hosted on GitHub Pages. For more info about contributing to Plotly documentation, please read through contributing guidelines.

Contributing

Please read through our contributing guidelines. Included are directions for opening issues, using plotly.js in your project and notes on development.

Community

• Follow @plotlygraphs on Twitter for the latest Plotly news.
• Implementation help may be found on community.plot.com (tagged plotly-js) or on Stack Overflow (tagged plotly).
• Developers should use the keyword plotly on packages which modify or add to the functionality of plotly.js when distributing through npm.

Versioning

This project is maintained under the Semantic Versioning guidelines.

See the Releases section of our GitHub project for changelogs for each release version of plotly.js.

Notable Contributors

Plotly.js is at the core of a large and dynamic ecosystem with many contributors who file issues, reproduce bugs, suggest improvements, write code in this repo (and other upstream or downstream ones) and help users in the Plotly community forum. The following people deserve special recognition for their outsized contributions to this ecosystem:

	GitHub	Twitter	Status
Alex C. Johnson	@alexcjohnson		Active, Maintainer
Mojtaba Samimi	@archmoj	@solarchvision	Active, Maintainer
Antoine Roy-Gobeil	@antoinerg		Active, Maintainer
Nicolas Kruchten	@nicolaskruchten	@nicolaskruchten	Active
Jon Mease	@jonmmease	@jonmmease	Active
Étienne Tétreault-Pinard	@etpinard	@etpinard	Hall of Fame
Mikola Lysenko	@mikolalysenko	@MikolaLysenko	Hall of Fame
Ricky Reusser	@rreusser	@rickyreusser	Hall of Fame
Dmitry Yv.	@dy	@DimaYv	Hall of Fame
Robert Monfera	@monfera	@monfera	Hall of Fame
Robert Möstl	@rmoestl	@rmoestl	Hall of Fame
Nicolas Riesco	@n-riesco		Hall of Fame
Miklós Tusz	@mdtusz	@mdtusz	Hall of Fame
Chelsea Douglas	@cldougl		Hall of Fame
Ben Postlethwaite	@bpostlethwaite		Hall of Fame
Chris Parmer	@chriddyp		Hall of Fame
Alex Vados	@alexander-daniel		Hall of Fame

Copyright and license

Code and documentation copyright 2020 Plotly, Inc.

Code released under the MIT license.

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