[discussion] combining with Plotly&PlotlyJS

[mmikhasenko]

Thank you so much for the package. I just posted my plotly figure online, finally, after several days of struggling. The posting functionality was very hard to find since I started from plotlyjs.

Is there a reason to keep the package separate from plotlyjs? Interestingly the plotting script that I wrote with using PlotlyJS just worked once I replaced the input using Plotly

[nicolaskruchten]

Hi there!

Many folks are very concerned about data privacy and would be very concerned if the code that does the plotting and the code that does the uploading to the cloud were in the same package, so we keep them separate :)

[sglyon]

Thanks @nicolaskruchten -- that's right!

The Plotly.jl package (this one!) imports and reexports everything from PlotlyJS and then adds just the post functionality to interact with the chart studio servers.

There are no additional plot creating methods here -- all of that lives in PlotlyJS

[mmikhasenko]

Now it is getting clear for me, thanks a lot for the clarification. Could it be added to the documentation? From the outside, it looked to me that PlotlyJS is the newer version of Plotly and the latter is getting unmaintained (build:error)

[mmikhasenko]

Also, concerning the documentation of the Plotly.jl. I did not get what the end_point is good for. I did not need it to post a plot (sorry for the ignorance). A sentence of the use case in the doc would help

[mmikhasenko]

One more edition to README.md. I just figured out how to post Plots.jl plot:

using Plots
import Plotly: post, signin
#
plotlyjs()
p = plot(rand(10))
plt_o = Plots.plotlyjs_syncplot(p) # that is what I was looking for
signin("...","...")
remote_plot = post(plt_o)

If you post it somewhere, you save someone a lot of time

[mmikhasenko]

Just created #63 . It would close this issue