Oopsies. And here is the link :D https://github.com/EricForgy/PlotlyJS.jl
On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 12:47:38 AM UTC+8, Eric Forgy wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > In this post > <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-users/7ApJrQq0NJ8/lCw-5_w4BwAJ> > from last Wednesday, Hans-Peter pointed out that plotly.js was made open > source ( https://plot.ly/javascript/open-source-announcement/ ). > > > Anyway, I tried my hands at writing a wrapper for the JS API. There > already exists Plotly.jl, but that is an API to interact with the company's > server requiring login info, etc. With the opening of the JS API, the > interaction between Julia and Plotly can be much simpler, I think. > > > In the other post, I mused that it should be straightforward to hook up > Plotly.js with Juno, so here is a snapshot: > > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7hvOPpH5FeQ/VlM8tq2ntHI/AAAAAAAAAKI/ecFtw7JxLrw/s1600/PlotlyJS.png> > > > To make it interactive, I used WebSockets.jl. One neat artifact of that is > you can stream the charts to multiple connections. > > > Here is a silly video demo of me controlling 4 browsers (only 3 are > visible) including an iPhone from Juno: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWDyyfVNqP0 > > > The same concept should work with Vega.jl in Juno. > > > I call this a "Pre-announcement", because it is not really ready for the > wild yet, but it is far enough that if some friendlies would like to have a > look and help me get it in shape, that would be more than welcome. > > > Currently, I am struggling a bit to get the paths correct. If I "git > clone" it and run it from the REPL, then I can make it work, but if I > "Pkg.clone" it, the path to the html containing the scripts is wrong. > > > Here are the lines in question: > > > # res = Response(open(readall,Pkg.dir("Plotly","src","web","plotly.html"))) > res = Response(open(readall,"web/plotly.html")) > > When run from the REPL (after CD'ing to the directory), the code will find > plotly.html. But if I Pkg.clone, it can't find it. It seems to find it when > I use the commented Pkg.dir, but then that doesn't work when I'm trying to > test before committing to Github and Pkg.checkout etc. Any ideas? > > Anyway, this has been kind of fun and if others can help improve it, that > would be a great learning experience for me. > > Best regards, > Eric >
