Hello everyone –
After a couple years of the same look & feel, I’m excited to share that the Dash Documentation is getting a makeover! Check it out at: https://dash.plot.ly
The first changes landed tonight:
- The visual style has been updated to match our new look (Read more: Plotly has a new look!)
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We added a nice new sidebar that shows the hierarchy of pages
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The sidebar is filterable and we’ve put some care into it:
- It’s focused by default when you open up the page. So, if you want to just quickly look up the properties for e.g.
dcc.Dropdown
, then you can 1) open https://dash.plot.ly, 2) Starting typing immediately (no need to use your mouse or cursor), 3) Press enter to view the top result. No mouse required! It’s very fast.
- We’ve indexed the sidebar so that you can search all of the component properties. For example, if you are trying to find an example of the property
selected_row_ids
, you’ll get this result:
- It’s focused by default when you open up the page. So, if you want to just quickly look up the properties for e.g.
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There is a persistent page menu bar on the right hand side that shows the main sections of each documentation page.
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In many areas, the visual style is more readable: darker fonts with higher contrast and bolded text. In particular, you’ll notice it on the reference pages that show all of the properties for a given component:
We still have lots of work to do here and we’ll update the forum with our progress. In the coming weeks, we’ll be adding:
- Full docstring-style reference for the
dash
module (not just the components). This will include things like the input arguments forapp.run_server
anddash.Dash
- Updated examples across the board. No component property will go without an example!
- Fixes to the links so that you can open them in new tabs (coming soon in Added click modifiers, target prop by HammadTheOne · Pull Request #767 · plotly/dash-core-components · GitHub)
- More Dash-specific graphing examples beyond what you find in Plotly Python Graphing Library | Python | Plotly (collecting ideas in Longer chapter(s) on interactive graphs · Issue #740 · plotly/dash-docs · GitHub)
Is there anything else that you would like to see? Please let us know by commenting below. In the meantime, I hope that you enjoy the new look & the latest features.
I hope everyone is staying safe & healthy out there
Chris