react-plotly.js

A plotly.js React component from Plotly

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Installation

$ npm install react-plotly.js plotly.js

Quick start

The easiest way to use this component is to import and pass data to a plot component. To import the component,

import Plot from 'react-plotly.js'

Then to render a plot,

render () {
  return (
    <Plot
      data={[
        {
          type: 'scatter',
          mode: 'lines+points',
          x: [1, 2, 3],
          y: [2, 6, 3],
          marker: {color: 'red'}
        },
        {
          type: 'bar',
          x: [1, 2, 3],
          y: [2, 5, 3]
        }
      ]}

      layout={{
        width: 320,
        height: 240,
        title: 'A Fancy Plot'
      }}
    />
  );
}

You should see a plot like this:

For a full description of Plotly chart types and attributes see the following resources:

Usage

Using this component inside a larger application may require some additional considerations in addition to the simple usage example above. The following sections detail two basic use-cases.

With bundled `plotly.js`

plotly.js is a peer dependency of react-plotly.js. If you would like to bundle plotly.js with the rest of your project and use it in this component, you must install it separately.

$ npm install -S react-plotly.js plotly.js

Since plotly.js is a peer dependency, you do not need to require it separately to use it.

import Plot from 'react-plotly.js'

render () {
  return <Plot 
    data={...}
    layout={...}
    frames={...}
    config={...}
  />
}

With external `plotly.js`

If you wish to use a version of plotly.js that is not bundled with the rest of your project, whether a CDN version or through a static distribution bundle, you may skip installing plotly.js and ignore the peer dependency warning.

$ npm install -S react-plotly.js

Given perhaps a script tag that has loaded a CDN version of plotly.js,

<script src="https://cdn.plot.ly/plotly-latest.min.js"></script>

you may then inject Plotly and use the returned React component:

import plotComponentFactory from 'react-plotly.js/factory'
const Plot = plotComponentFactory(Plotly);

render () {
  return <Plot
    data={...}
    layout={...}
    frames={...}
    config={...}
  />
}

Note: You must ensure Plotly is available before your React app tries to render the component. That could mean perhaps using script tag (without async or defer) or a utility like load-script.

As a standalone bundle

For quick one-off demos on CodePen or JSFiddle, you may wish to just load the component directly as a script tag. We don't host the bundle directly, so you should never rely on this to work forever or in production, but you can use a third-party service to load the factory version of the component from, for example, https://unpkg.com/react-plotly.js@latest/dist/create-plotly-component.js.

You can load the component with:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/react-plotly.js@1.0.1/dist/create-plotly-component.js"></script>

And instantiate the component with

const Plot = createPlotlyComponent(Plotly);

ReactDOM.render(
  React.createElement(Plot, {
    data: [{x: [1, 2, 3], y: [2, 1, 3]}]
  }),
  document.getElementById('root')
);

You can see an example of this method in action here.

API

Props

Prop	Type	Default	Description
`data`	`Array`	`[]`	list of trace objects
`layout`	`Object`	`undefined`	layout object
`config`	`Object`	`undefined`	config object
`frames`	`Array`	`undefined`	list of frame objects
`fit`	`Boolean`	`false`	When true, disregards `layout.width` and `layout.height` and fits to the parent div size, updating on `window.resize`
`revision`	`Number`	`undefined`	When provided, causes the plot to update only when the revision is incremented.
`debug`	`Boolean`	`false`	Assign the graph div to `window.gd` for debugging
`onInitialized`	`Function`	`undefined`	Callback executed once after plot is initialized
`onUpdate`	`Function`	`undefined`	Callback executed when a plotly.js API method is invoked
`onError`	`Function`	`undefined`	Callback executed when a plotly.js API method rejects

Event handler props

Event handlers for plotly.js events may be attached through the following props.

Prop	Type	Plotly Event
`onAfterExport`	`Function`	`plotly_afterexport`
`onAfterPlot`	`Function`	`plotly_afterplot`
`onAnimated`	`Function`	`plotly_animated`
`onAnimatingFrame`	`Function`	`plotly_animatingframe`
`onAnimationInterrupted`	`Function`	`plotly_animationinterrupted`
`onAutoSize`	`Function`	`plotly_autosize`
`onBeforeExport`	`Function`	`plotly_beforeexport`
`onButtonClicked`	`Function`	`plotly_buttonclicked`
`onClick`	`Function`	`plotly_click`
`onClickAnnotation`	`Function`	`plotly_clickannotation`
`onDeselect`	`Function`	`plotly_deselect`
`onDoubleClick`	`Function`	`plotly_doubleclick`
`onFramework`	`Function`	`plotly_framework`
`onHover`	`Function`	`plotly_hover`
`onRelayout`	`Function`	`plotly_relayout`
`onRestyle`	`Function`	`plotly_restyle`
`onRedraw`	`Function`	`plotly_redraw`
`onSelected`	`Function`	`plotly_selected`
`onSelecting`	`Function`	`plotly_selecting`
`onSliderChange`	`Function`	`plotly_sliderchange`
`onSliderEnd`	`Function`	`plotly_sliderend`
`onSliderStart`	`Function`	`plotly_sliderstart`
`onTransitioning`	`Function`	`plotly_transitioning`
`onTransitionInterrupted`	`Function`	`plotly_transitioninterrupted`
`onUnhover`	`Function`	`plotly_unhover`

Roadmap

This component currently creates a new plot every time the input changes. That makes it stable and good enough for production use, but plotly.js will soon gain react-style support for computing and drawing changes incrementally. What does that mean for you? That means you can expect to keep using this component with little modification but that the plotting will simply happen much faster when you upgrade to the first version of plotly.js to support this feature. If this component requires any significant changes, a new major version will be released at the same time to ensure stability. See plotly/react-plotly.js#2 for more information about this feature.

Development

To get started:

$ npm install
$ npm start

To transpile from ES2015 + JSX into the ES5 npm-distributed version:

$ npm run prepublishOnly

To run the tests:

$ npm run test

License

© 2017 Plotly, Inc. MIT License.