René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"a version of .newPlot that does the .update logic behind the scenes","articleBody":"In Dash, I'd like the Graph component to do smart `restyle` and `relayout` updates when I call `newPlot` or `plot` (or some new method). Dash users deal with `figure`s and not diffs.\r\n\r\nProgramming this logic myself is a lot of work that other groups could benefit from if it was done centrally in plotly.js. I wrote a lot of the logic in the workspace and it took a while to work through all the kinks. Some of the edge cases included:\r\n- calling `newPlot` instead of `update` at the start\r\n- calling `addTraces` manually instead of `update`\r\n- calling `newPlot` instead of `update` when switching between 2D, 3D, or ternary\r\n- calling `newPlot` when switching to a financial chart type\r\n- deleting cartesian axes when swithing to ternary or mapbox\r\n\r\n[Here is that code](https://github.com/plotly/streambed/blob/master/shelly/filewell/static/filewell/src/components/workspace/panels/PlotPanel.react.js#L367-L613)\r\n\r\nThis would form the basis of a plotly.js React component.\r\n\r\nDash users will benefit from this immediately with:\r\n- Faster updates enabling their apps to refresh every 50ms and mimic live-streaming\r\n- Mapbox updates with full map redraws\r\n\r\nIdeally, this logic would work its way into a robust `.animate` method as well ([.animate method that can handle any type of figure diff #1849](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/1849))\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":"2017-07-04T17:43:18.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":11},"url":"https://github.com/1850/plotly.js/issues/1850"}