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The open source javascript graphing library that powers plotly
Filed under dataBuilt on top of d3.js and stack.gl, plotly.js is a high-level, declarative charting library. plotly.js ships with over 30 chart types, including scientific charts, 3D graphs, statistical charts, SVG 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
- Clients for R, Python, Node, and MATLAB
- Creators
- 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';
orvar 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"></script> <!-- OR use a specific plotly.js release (e.g. version 1.5.0) --> <script src="https://cdn.plot.ly/plotly-1.5.0.min.js"></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.Download the latest release
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, runnpm install plotly.js-geo-dist
and addimport 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 usingplotly.js/lib/core
, and loading only the trace types that you need (e.g.pie
orchoropleth
). 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');
To learn more about the plotly.js module architecture, refer to our modularizing monolithic JS projects post.
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 inBUILDING.md
Bugs and feature requests
Have a bug or a feature request? Please first read the issues guidelines.
Documentation
Official plotly.js documentation is hosted on plot.ly/javascript.
These pages are generated by the Plotly documentation repo built with Jekyll and publicly hosted on GitHub Pages. For more info about contributing to Plotly documentation, please read through contributing guidelines.
You can also suggest new documentation examples by submitting a Codepen on community.plot.ly with tag
plotly-js
.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.
- Follow @plotly_js on Twitter for plotly.js release updates.
- Implementation help may be found on community.plot.ly (tagged
plotly-js
) or on Stack Overflow (taggedplotly
). - Developers should use the keyword
plotly
on packages which modify or add to the functionality of plotly.js when distributing through npm. - Direct developer email support can be purchased through a Plotly Support Plan.
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.
Clients for R, Python, Node, and MATLAB
Open-source clients to the plotly.js APIs are available at these links:
GitHub repo Getting started R / RStudio ropensci/plotly plot.ly/r/getting-started Python / Pandas / IPython notebook plotly/plotly.py plot.ly/python/getting-started MATLAB plotly/matlab-api plot.ly/matlab/getting-started node.js / Tonicdev / Jupyter notebook plotly/plotly-notebook-js node.js cloud client plotly/plotly-nodejs plot.ly/nodejs/getting-started Julia plotly/Plotly.jl plot.ly/julia/getting-started plotly.js charts can also be created and saved online for free at plot.ly/create.
Creators
Active
Github Twitter Alex C. Johnson @alexcjohnson Étienne Tétreault-Pinard @etpinard @etpinard Antoine Roy-Gobeil @antoinerg Mojtaba Samimi @archmoj @solarchvision Hall of Fame
Github Twitter Mikola Lysenko @mikolalysenko @MikolaLysenko Ricky Reusser @rreusser @rickyreusser Dmitry Yv. @dy @DimaYv Robert Monfera @monfera @monfera Robert Möstl @rmoestl @rmoestl Nicolas Riesco @n-riesco Miklós Tusz @mdtusz @mdtusz Chelsea Douglas @cldougl Ben Postlethwaite @bpostlethwaite Chris Parmer @chriddyp Alex Vados @alexander-daniel Copyright and license
Code and documentation copyright 2019 Plotly, Inc.
Code released under the MIT license.
Docs released under the Creative Commons license.