Trendline without Plotly Express

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Hi all, I currently have a scatter plot created with the graph_objects package. The code looks roughly like:

from plotly import graph_objects as go
from plotly.subplots import make_subplots

fig = make_subplots(rows=1, cols=1, subplot_titles=titles)

fig.add_trace(
    go.Scatter(
        name="Points",
        y=data["points"],
        x=data["start_time"],
        mode="lines+markers",
    ),
    col=1,
    row=1,
)

Where data is a plain Python dictionary that has two lists - one for a series of data points (integer values) and one for a list of timestamps. That is, it looks roughly like:

data = {
  "points": [5, 10, 13, .... more items ...],
  "start_time": [datetime(2021, 4, 10, 13, 5), datetime(2021, 4, 11, 3, 50), ... more items ...],
}

This works, and now I’d like to add a trendline to this chart, but all examples I seem to find require using Plotly Express, and I’d like to avoid using Plotly express on this project as it’d require me to pull in some other dependencies I don’t particularly want or need (Pandas being the biggest).

Is that possible, or is the only way to get a trendline on a scatter plat with Plotly express?