plotly.js
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Plotly.js is a high-level, declarative charting library built on D3.js and stack.gl. It enables the creation of a wide variety of interactive and publication-quality charts, including line plots, scatter plots, bar charts, histograms, heatmaps, and more. It is particularly well-suited for creating complex visualizations with minimal code.
Line and Scatter Plots
This feature allows you to create line and scatter plots. The code sample demonstrates how to create a simple scatter plot with Plotly.js.
const Plotly = require('plotly.js-dist');
const data = [{
x: [1, 2, 3, 4],
y: [10, 15, 13, 17],
type: 'scatter'
}];
const layout = { title: 'Line and Scatter Plot' };
Plotly.newPlot('myDiv', data, layout);Bar Charts
This feature allows you to create bar charts. The code sample demonstrates how to create a simple bar chart with Plotly.js.
const Plotly = require('plotly.js-dist');
const data = [{
x: ['A', 'B', 'C'],
y: [20, 14, 23],
type: 'bar'
}];
const layout = { title: 'Bar Chart' };
Plotly.newPlot('myDiv', data, layout);Heatmaps
This feature allows you to create heatmaps. The code sample demonstrates how to create a simple heatmap with Plotly.js.
const Plotly = require('plotly.js-dist');
const data = [{
z: [[1, 20, 30], [20, 1, 60], [30, 60, 1]],
type: 'heatmap'
}];
const layout = { title: 'Heatmap' };
Plotly.newPlot('myDiv', data, layout);3D Surface Plots
This feature allows you to create 3D surface plots. The code sample demonstrates how to create a simple 3D surface plot with Plotly.js.
const Plotly = require('plotly.js-dist');
const data = [{
z: [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]],
type: 'surface'
}];
const layout = { title: '3D Surface Plot' };
Plotly.newPlot('myDiv', data, layout);Pie Charts
This feature allows you to create pie charts. The code sample demonstrates how to create a simple pie chart with Plotly.js.
const Plotly = require('plotly.js-dist');
const data = [{
values: [19, 26, 55],
labels: ['A', 'B', 'C'],
type: 'pie'
}];
const layout = { title: 'Pie Chart' };
Plotly.newPlot('myDiv', data, layout);Chart.js is a simple yet flexible JavaScript charting library for designers & developers. It offers a good variety of chart types and is known for its ease of use and integration. Compared to Plotly.js, Chart.js is more lightweight but may lack some of the advanced features and customization options.
Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts is known for its rich feature set and extensive documentation. It is comparable to Plotly.js in terms of functionality but is often used in commercial applications due to its licensing model.
D3.js is a JavaScript library for producing dynamic, interactive data visualizations in web browsers. It uses SVG, HTML, and CSS. D3.js is highly flexible and powerful but has a steeper learning curve compared to Plotly.js, which abstracts many of the complexities of D3.js.
ECharts is a free, powerful charting and visualization library offering an easy way of adding intuitive, interactive, and highly customizable charts. It is similar to Plotly.js in terms of functionality and is known for its performance and ease of use.
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.
Install a ready-to-use distributed bundle
npm i --save plotly.js-dist-min
and use import or require in node.js
// ES6 module
import Plotly from 'plotly.js-dist-min'
// CommonJS
var Plotly = require('plotly.js-dist-min')
You may also consider using plotly.js-dist if you prefer using an unminified package.
In the examples below
Plotlyobject is added to the window scope byscript. ThenewPlotmethod is then used to draw an interactive figure as described bydataandlayoutinto the desireddivhere namedgd. As demonstrated in the example above basic knowledge ofhtmland JSON syntax is enough to get started i.e. with/without JavaScript! To learn and build more with plotly.js please visit plotly.js documentation.
<head>
<script src="https://cdn.plot.ly/plotly-2.25.2.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="gd"></div>
<script>
Plotly.newPlot("gd", /* JSON object */ {
"data": [{ "y": [1, 2, 3] }],
"layout": { "width": 600, "height": 400}
})
</script>
</body>
Alternatively you may consider using native ES6 import in the script tag.
<script type="module">
import "https://cdn.plot.ly/plotly-2.25.2.min.js"
Plotly.newPlot("gd", [{ y: [1, 2, 3] }])
</script>
Fastly supports Plotly.js with free CDN service. Read more at https://www.fastly.com/open-source.
While non-minified source files may contain characters outside UTF-8, it is recommended that you specify the charset when loading those bundles.
<script src="https://cdn.plot.ly/plotly-2.25.2.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Please note that as of v2 the "plotly-latest" outputs (e.g. https://cdn.plot.ly/plotly-latest.min.js) will no longer be updated on the CDN, and will stay at the last v1 patch v1.58.5. Therefore, to use the CDN with plotly.js v2 and higher, you must specify an exact plotly.js version.
You could load either version two or version three of MathJax files, for example:
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax/2.7.5/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_SVG.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mathjax@3.2.2/es5/tex-svg.js"></script>
When using MathJax version 3, it is also possible to use
chtmloutput on the other parts of the page in addition tosvgoutput for the plotly graph. Please refer todevtools/test_dashboard/index-mathjax3chtml.htmlto see an example.
There are two kinds of plotly.js bundles:
npm and the CDN, described in the dist README.If your library needs to bundle or directly load plotly.js/lib/index.js or parts of its modules similar to index-basic in some other way than via an official or a custom bundle, or in case you want to tweak the default build configurations, then please visit BUILDING.md.
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.
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
Please read through our contributing guidelines. Included are directions for opening issues, using plotly.js in your project and notes on development.
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 | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Alex C. Johnson | @alexcjohnson | Active, Maintainer | |
| Mojtaba Samimi | @archmoj | @solarchvision | Active, Maintainer |
| Antoine Roy-Gobeil | @antoinerg | Active, Maintainer | |
| Nicolas Kruchten | @nicolaskruchten | @nicolaskruchten | Active, Maintainer |
| 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 |
Code and documentation copyright 2021 Plotly, Inc.
Code released under the MIT license.
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.
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The open source javascript graphing library that powers plotly
The npm package plotly.js receives a total of 124,749 weekly downloads. As such, plotly.js popularity was classified as popular.
We found that plotly.js demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 13 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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