Is it possible to use deck gl with dash?

Dash Python
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I was wondering if it is possible to use deck.gl with dash.

Deck.gl is a powefull graphing library which is being developed by Uber. It is also based upon React.

So, I thought that it would be incredible to have both tools, dash and deckgl, working together.

Does anyone know how feasible it is?

Cheers

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For sure! You would just need to wrap it up in a Dash component interface. See the guides in the “Creating Your Own Components” section in the documentation:
https://dash.plot.ly/

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Nice!

I’ll try to wrap it and keep you posted.

:slight_smile:

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Great, let us know how it goes!

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Hey @chriddyp,

I manage to get it working! I’ve made a video https://youtu.be/NNtL5vlu-tE showing it rendering 10k lines.

Everything that I’ve done so far is can be found here: https://github.com/JoaoCarabetta/deckgl2plotly

I plan to add other layer types and improve styling etc in the future.

However, when I tried to use by installing the tarball, I got this error:

Uncaught (in promise) Error: deckglplotly was not found.
at Object.resolve (registry.js:16)
at p (TreeContainer.js:73)
at Array.map (<anonymous>)
at p (TreeContainer.js:58)
at Array.map (<anonymous>)
at p (TreeContainer.js:58)
at Array.map (<anonymous>)
at p (TreeContainer.js:58)
at Array.map (<anonymous>)
at p (TreeContainer.js:58)

You can reproduce it using the usage.py and test.json files.

Do you know what I am missing?

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Did you publish to npm ? Your __init__ contains the external_url, when apps are set to not serve locally, they will take that url instead of the local one. You can remove the external_url key if you don’t want to publish to npm and it will always serve your component from the local install.

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Amazing stuff @jaotta!!