René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":".animate method that can handle any type of figure diff","articleBody":"In Dash, I'd like users to be able to toggle on and off an `animate` property which would either smoothly transition points (if available) or just update the chart.\r\n\r\nRight now, `Plotly.animate` doesn't work with all chart transitions and data transitions. While I could program this myself in the Graph component, it would be great if `plotly.js` could do this so that everyone could benefit. We could even use this in the workspace to smooth out transitions!\r\n\r\nIdeally, I would just replace the `.newPlot(id, data, layout)` call with a `.animate(id, data, layout)` call and call it a day.\r\n\r\nIn particular, here are some of the edge cases:\r\n- `.animate` to work before `.plot` is called\r\n- `.animate` to work across all chart types (even if it's not a smooth animation)\r\n- `.animate` to autorange (expand axes if the new data was larger than the existing data)\r\n- `.animate` when new traces are added or removed\r\n- `.animate` when chart types have been changed\r\n\r\nI'm OK if this is a new method or a new config option or whatever.\r\n\r\n***\r\n\r\ncc @rreusser @alexcjohnson @etpinard @cpsievert @monfera @jackparmer","author":{"url":"https://github.com/chriddyp","@type":"Person","name":"chriddyp"},"datePublished":"2017-07-04T17:35:05.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":14},"url":"https://github.com/1849/plotly.js/issues/1849"}