dash-labs 1.0.3

Experimental enhancements for potential inclusion in Dash

Dash Labs tech preview

This repository contains a work-in-progress technical preview of potential future Dash features.

🚧 Dash Labs features are not guaranteed to land in the official dash package. These features are also not officially supported by Plotly's Support Team or by Dash Enterprise. We recommend waiting for these features to land in dash before using them in a Production Environment. 🚧

Documentation

The documentation for Dash Labs can be found in the docs/ directory.

• 01-Overview.md

Archived in dash-labs v0.4.0:

• 02-CallbackEnhancements.md
• 03-TemplateLayoutSystem.md
• 04-PredefinedTemplates.md
• 05-ComponentPlugingPattern.md
• 06-TemplateIntegrationAndMigration.md
• 07-LongCallback.md

Multi-Page App Docs

New in dash-labs>=1.0.0:

• 08-MultiPageDashApp.md
  • Overview, quickstart apps, reference for the pages plug-in
• 09-MultiPageDashApp-NestedFolders.md
  • Example of organizing app pages in nested folders within the pages/ folder
• 10-MultiPageDashApp-MetaTags.md
  • Details on how the title, image, and description are used to create the meta tags which determine how your app looks when shared on social media.
• 11-MultiPageDashApp-LayoutFunctions.md
  • Examples of when to make the layout a function - like when creating a custom menu by page, or using query strings.

Multi-Page App Demos

Examples and demos are located in the docs/demos directory.

• multi_page_basics
  • Minimal examples of all the features and basic quickstart apps. (see chapter 8 for details.)
• multi_page_example1
  • A quickstart app using dash-bootstrap-components and some simple callbacks.
• multi_page_layout_functions
  • An app that creates a sidebar menu for certain pages. (See chapter 11 for details.)
• multi_page_long_callback
  • An example of how to use @app.long_callback() with pages/
• multi_page_meta_tags
  • The example app used to show how the meta tags are generated. (See chapter 10 for details.)
• multi_page_nested_folders
  • This is the example app used in chapter 9.
• multi_page_query_strings
  • An example of using query strings in the URL to pass parameters from one page to another.

Installation

To install the latest version of dash-labs:

$ pip install -U dash-labs

To install the archived version:

$ pip install dash-labs==0.4.0

We also recommend installing Pandas, which is required by Plotly Express and used in many of our examples.