Built on top of d3.js and stack.gl, plotly.js is a high-level, declarative charting library. plotly.js ships with 20 chart types, including 3D charts, statistical graphs, and SVG maps.
Table of contents
- Quick start options
- Bugs and feature requests
- Documentation
- Contributing
- Community
- Clients for R, Python, and MATLAB
- Creators
- Copyright and license
Quick start options
Download the latest release
Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js.git
npm
Install with npm install plotly.js
Use the plotly.js CDN hosted by Fastly:
<!-- Latest compiled and minified plotly.js JavaScript -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.plot.ly/plotly-latest.min.js">
Read the Getting started page for examples.
Bugs and feature requests
Have a bug or a feature request? Please first read the issues guidelines.
Documentation
Official plotly.js documentation is hosted on plot.ly/javascript.
These pages are generated by the Plotly documentation repo built with Jekyll and publicly hosted on GitHub Pages. For more info about contributing to Plotly documentation, please read through contributing guidelines.
You can also suggest new documentation examples by submitting a Codepen on community.plot.ly with tag plotly-js
.
Contributing
Please read through our contributing guidelines. Included are directions for opening issues, using plotly.js in your project and notes on development.
Community
Get updates on plotly.js's development and chat with the project maintainers and community members.
- Follow @plotlygraphs on Twitter.
- Implementation help may be found at Stack Overflow (tagged
plotly
) or community.plot.ly (taggedplotly-js
). - Developers should use the keyword
plotly
on packages which modify or add to the functionality of plotly.js when distributing through npm. - Direct developer email support can be purchased through a Plotly Pro plan.
Versioning
plotly.js is maintained under the Semantic Versioning guidelines.
See the Releases section of our GitHub project for changelogs for each release version of plotly.js.
Clients for R, Python, and MATLAB
Open-source clients to the plotly.js APIs are available at these links:
GitHub repo | Getting started | |
---|---|---|
R / RStudio | ropensci/plotly | plot.ly/r/getting-started |
Python / Pandas / IPython notebook | plotly/plotly.py | plot.ly/python/getting-started |
MATLAB | plotly/matlab-api | plot.ly/matlab/getting-started |
node.js | plotly/plotly-nodejs | plot.ly/nodejs/getting-started |
Julia | plotly/Plotly.jl | plot.ly/julia/getting-started |
plotly.js charts can also be created and saved online for free at plot.ly/plot.
Creators
Github | ||
---|---|---|
Alex C. Johnson | @alexcjohnson | |
Étienne Tétreault-Pinard | @etpinard | @etpinard |
Mikola Lysenko | @mikolalysenko | @MikolaLysenko |
Ben Postlethwaite | @bpostlethwaite | |
Chris Parmer | @chriddyp | |
Chelsea Douglas | @cldougl |
Copyright and license
Code and documentation copyright 2015 Plotly, Inc.
Code released under the MIT license.
Docs released under the Creative Commons license.