[Feat] Add support for Plotly Dash

[samatix]

Hi maintainers,

Hope this message finds you in good health. I wanted to reach out to ask if it's possible to add support for Plotly Dash. It's useful for creating interactive web-based dashboards but can benefit from all the data exploration part.

Thanks

[IloBe]

Hi all, customers using plotly apps would love this enhancement and data science teams as well. Thanks for your great library, Ilona

[ghost]

+1

[seqyuan]

+1

[Stephen451]

Same here, it'd be super useful

[DavMelchi]

And allow to export plotly code... That will be awesome! 👌

[ObservedObserver]

Thoughts update:

I do believe that allowing graphic-walker/pygwalker to support multiple charts lib is a great idea. Technically, we need to implement a parser layer to transform graphic-walker DSL into other chart code/specification. It's a cool engineering abstract. I will be happy to implement it.

But, I am still not sure why people need a different chart library for visual exploration. I don't find there is much benefit of ploty than vega/vega-lite. Hope someone can share your demands or insights here.

[IloBe]

@ObservedObserver To my opinion, with Plotly Dash you can do much more than visual exploration. It is fast and easy to build a whole Web-application with a lot of different features.

[samatix]

@ObservedObserver , thanks for checking this out. As @IloBe mentioned, the use case is the same as Streamlit. The purpose is not to use Plotly for the charts but more to embed Pygwalker in a Dash (plotly) app (see examples here).

[ObservedObserver]

Update

Hi, everyone. Now you can use pygwalker as a component in Plotly Dash, check this document: Use PyGWalker with Plotly Dash

For hosting pygwalker as a web app (or dashboard), you can also use:

1. Streamlit: https://docs.kanaries.net/pygwalker/use-pygwalker-with-streamlit
2. Gradio: How to Use PyGWalker with Gradio
3. shiny-python: How to Integrate PyGWalker with Shiny-Python

Or even flask or django if you are familiar with web development.