Use URL query strings with single-page app

[AnnMarieW]

Hi @tcharland13

The functionality to pass the query strings and (and path variables) to the layout is a Pages feature.

You don’t need to create a pages folder - just set it to ""

app = Dash(__name__, use_pages=True, pages_folder="")

You can register the layout as a page like this, then display it in dash.page_container:

dash.register_page("home", layout=layout, path="/")

app.layout = html.Div(dash.page_container)

Find a full example here:

Use URL query parameter when rendering initial layout

I have a single page Dash app that includes a dash_table of users, user-select-table. When you click on a cell in that table, the user represented by that row is “selected” and other components on the page update to show information about that user. I want to make it easy to jump to the selection of a specific user, so that if you go to myapp[.]com/?user_id=3, the app loads with User ID 3 already selected. Furthermore, when you click on a cell in user-select-table, the app URL updates to include…