Hi all, I was wondering if real-time chart capabilities were possible in plotly.js without making use of the streaming API. I don’t want to use the server technology the API provides as I already have that set up. Can I use the regular plotly.js library for this or do I need to find something else? By real-time I mainly mean the ability to take in new data without have to refresh the entire dataset, like how other real-time libraries do it.
Plotly.extendTraces is what you what to use.
See previous post How to extend traces properly in js for an example.
Thanks, this seems to be what I’m looking for. Is there a way to make old data go off the chart after a point, so that the graph does not get overcrowded?
Yes. You can set the maximum number of points the in forth argument of Plotly.extendTraces
See example http://codepen.io/etpinard/pen/dNqaKj
Last thing, I’m trying to animate the data coming in somehow, at the moment with plotly.animate. So far, it is not working. Is there a way to animate the live data coming in, and make it look smoother?