CHchriddyp·Nov 17, 2020Submission
4 points · Open discussionplotly
plotly.js
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plotly / plotly.js
plotly.js
Open-source JavaScript charting library behind Plotly and Dash
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Open-source JavaScript charting library behind Plotly and Dash
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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4 sourcesGetTimezoneOffset and Nov 18, 1883
2 points · Open discussionHello HN! Nice to see this up here. Chris here, cofounder of Plotly.
Falcon is open source and works without an internet connection or a Plotly Chart Studio account. Falcon wires together our graphing library plotly.js (https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/), the plotly.js chart editor (https://github.com/plotly/react-chart-editor), Electron, and some open source NPM packages for connecting to databases.
Just FYI - As a company (Plotly), we're spending most of our development effort these days on Dash Open Source (https://github.com/plotly/dash) and Dash Enterprise (https://plotly.com/dash). Truth be told, we found that most companies we worked with preferred to own the analytical backend. We also heard many stories of organizations running into roadblocks with off-the-shelf SQL or BI tools (Falcon included!). Our approach with Dash is to
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provide the visualization and application primitives so that you could build your own tailor-made dashboards, analytical apps, or yes, even SQL editors.
If you want to read more about where we're at, here's an essay we wrote last week on Dash: https://medium.com/plotly/dash-is-react-for-python-r-and-jul...
Having created mostly static in excel, I found the premise of d3 awesome! As the complexity to use it was kind of overwhelming, I ended up using plotly.js and its react wrapper for an analytical app at work.
Whilst this works great and is super straightforward, there's many little things that you can't easily control in plotly (and other similar libraries). They come with some bugs/quirks that perhaps are meaningless to 95% of their users, but limit me from making my ideal dashbaord.
E.g. plotly doesn't seem to support formatting a date as a week with a ISO8601 (%V): https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/424 and many other little things.
What's the best way to use d3 with react these days, then? Is there some recommendation from Mike or someone else who is experienced in this area?
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