# 📣 New extensive tutorial on the \`figure\` property in \`dcc.Graph\`

**URL:** <https://community.plotly.com/t/new-extensive-tutorial-on-the-figure-property-in-dcc-graph/31045>\
**Category:** Dash Python\
**Tags:** show-and-tell, announcements\
**Created:** [November 8, 2019, 12:40am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/new-extensive-tutorial-on-the-figure-property-in-dcc-graph/31045 "2019-11-08T00:40:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![chriddyp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/chriddyp/32/16855_2.png) [@chriddyp](https://community.plotly.com/u/chriddyp)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 12:40am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/new-extensive-tutorial-on-the-figure-property-in-dcc-graph/31045/1 "2019-11-08T00:40:18Z")

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👋 Hello everybody ❤

@jmmease & @nicolaskruchten from our team just published a really great new tutorial that covers the `figure` property of `dcc.Graph` in great depth:

**[Creating and Updating Figures in Python - https://plot.ly/python/creating-and-updating-figures/](https://plot.ly/python/creating-and-updating-figures/)**

We’ve made a lot of changes to this property this year ([Introducing Plotly Express](https://medium.com/plotly/introducing-plotly-express-808df010143d) and [Announcing Plotly.py 4.0.0](https://medium.com/plotly/plotly-py-4-0-is-here-offline-only-express-first-displayable-anywhere-fc444e5659ee?source=---------8------------------)): we’ve introduced `plotly.express` as a new way to “generate” figures and we’ve added many `.update_` methods that make it easy to modify the properties of an existing figure.

This new Plotly Python Graphing Library tutorial covers `figure` in all of its forms: from it’s underlying JSON form to its list & dictionary representation, from `graph_objects` to `px.*` to `figure_factory`.

I highly recommend giving it a read. We’d also love to hear your feedback.

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Some screenshots [from the tutorial](https://plot.ly/python/creating-and-updating-figures/)

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**Author:** ![chriddyp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/chriddyp/32/16855_2.png) [@chriddyp](https://community.plotly.com/u/chriddyp)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 12:40am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/new-extensive-tutorial-on-the-figure-property-in-dcc-graph/31045/2 "2019-11-08T00:40:36Z")

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**Author:** ![byronz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/byronz/32/5727_2.png) [@byronz](https://community.plotly.com/u/byronz)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/new-extensive-tutorial-on-the-figure-property-in-dcc-graph/31045/3 "2019-11-08T19:40:52Z")

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we should add this link in [https://dash.plot.ly/dash-core-components/graph](https://dash.plot.ly/dash-core-components/graph)