Bento

Create Plotly Dash apps via templates

	This GIF shows the ideal Bento experience, how you can add components to a dashboard in real time. Adding two extra controls, fixing up the layout, and finally applying a dark theme were all simple, drop-in changes.

Bento is a templating engine built on Plotly Dash. It lets you write a high-level description of your desired interactive dashboard and generates the application code for you. Like its namesake, Bento focuses on convenience and organization. By providing a set of reusable building blocks and abstracting away some of the more complicated aspects, it aims to flatten the learning curve of dashboarding!

Features

• Write 10x fewer lines of code for your app
• Easily control the dashboard layout via a grid system
• Leverage a library of pre-built compound objects (Bento's 'banks')
• CSS-free experience -- simple theming and styling support, CSS is templated away
• Out-of-the-box support for multi-page dashboards with an appbar
• Manage deployments with Bento Builder
• Encourage good coding practices, decoupling data prep and visualization

Gallery

For some example dashboards, I've put together a small gallery. You can click through the live examples linked in the readme and compare to the descriptors located in each of the associated folders in the repo.

Quickstart

Dependencies: Python 3.7+

Bento is available on PyPI, and the latest version can be installed with:

pip3 install bento-dash

To make sure everything is working, try running the demo app:

bento-demo

And navigate in your browser to localhost:8050.

Developing with Bento

If you're interested in creating and deploying a Bento dashboard, I recommend setting up a Docker-friendly environment. I created a repo that can get you going called Bento Builder. Some extra details are provided in the Bento Builder readme.

Contributing to Bento

As an early stage product, honest and direct feedback is extremely valuable. Don't hesitate to open an issue with suggestions until another forum is set up.