# Interactive Plotly Heatmap **URL:** \ **Category:** plotly.js\ **Tags:** question\ **Created:** [November 2, 2023, 9:35pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/interactive-plotly-heatmap/79825 "2023-11-02T21:35:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tinanemati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@tinanemati](https://community.plotly.com/u/tinanemati)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 9:35pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/interactive-plotly-heatmap/79825/1 "2023-11-02T21:35:42Z")
Hi Everyone! I’m a new Plotly user and have used plotly.js in a React application. I was wondering if there is any way that we make a heatmap graph in Plotly interactive?? For example, Interactively view x, and y slices through heatmaps and contour plots? I found [this example](https://github.com/chriddyp/interactive-heatmaps), but I have a hard time understanding the code, and also the Demo doesn’t work. Can anyone help me, please? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![AIMPED](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/aimped/32/21758_2.png) [@AIMPED](https://community.plotly.com/u/AIMPED)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/interactive-plotly-heatmap/79825/2 "2023-11-02T21:58:14Z")
Hi @tinanemati welcome to the community! I would use dash for these kind of interactivity. You could take a look at this tutorial to start with to get an idea. > **[Dash in 20 Minutes Tutorial | Dash for Python Documentation | Plotly](https://dash.plotly.com/tutorial)** > > A Dash tutorial that shows you how to create a Dash app in 20 minutes. Once you understand the basic concepts, you can get creative with the level of interactivity. ---
**Author:** ![tinanemati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@tinanemati](https://community.plotly.com/u/tinanemati)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 10:20pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/interactive-plotly-heatmap/79825/3 "2023-11-02T22:20:26Z")
Hi @AIMPED! Thank you for the warm welcome and sharing the information with Dash 🙂 I have actually worked with Dash before and have created a Plotly Dash component using the react boilerplate link below. However, when I was working on my heatmap component, I could not find good documentation on how to use the `plotly.js` library and make it interactive. I found an example of an interactive heatmap on github, but it also seems to not have clear documentation. Is there another source where I can look at with better documentation by any chance? boilerplate Github link: [https://github.com/plotly/dash-component-boilerplate](https://github.com/plotly/dash-component-boilerplate) example link of an interactive heatmap: [https://github.com/chriddyp/interactive-heatmaps#interactively-view-x-y-slices-through-heatmaps-and-contour-plots](https://github.com/chriddyp/interactive-heatmaps#interactively-view-x-y-slices-through-heatmaps-and-contour-plots) plotly documentation link: [Heatmaps in JavaScript](https://plotly.com/javascript/heatmaps/) ---
**Author:** ![tinanemati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@tinanemati](https://community.plotly.com/u/tinanemati)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 10:29pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/interactive-plotly-heatmap/79825/4 "2023-11-02T22:29:25Z")
I’m sorry, this was also one of the links I used: [https://plotly.com/javascript/react/](https://plotly.com/javascript/react/) ---
**Author:** ![AIMPED](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/aimped/32/21758_2.png) [@AIMPED](https://community.plotly.com/u/AIMPED)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 7:54am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/interactive-plotly-heatmap/79825/5 "2023-11-03T07:54:43Z")
I’m sorry for my ignorance. Unfortunately my JS skills are not sufficient to help you. Maybe other users can chime in. ---
**Author:** ![RenaudLN](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/renaudln/32/9041_2.png) [@RenaudLN](https://community.plotly.com/u/RenaudLN)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 9:03pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/interactive-plotly-heatmap/79825/6 "2023-11-05T21:03:22Z")
@tinanemati Are you looking for the Plotly JavaScript docs for heatmaps? [Heatmaps in JavaScript](https://plotly.com/javascript/heatmaps/)