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Hello HN! Nice to see this up here. Chris here, cofounder of Plotly. Falcon is open source and works without an internet connection or a Plotly Chart Studio ac
by chriddyp 6y ago
Hello HN! Nice to see this up here. Chris here, cofounder of Plotly.
Falcon is open source and works without an internet connection or a Plotly Chart Studio account. Falcon wires together our graphing library plotly.js (https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/ https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/), the plotly.js chart editor (https://github.com/plotly/react-chart-editor https://github.com/plotly/react-chart-editor), Electron, and some open source NPM packages for connecting to databases.
Just FYI - As a company (Plotly), we're spending most of our development effort these days on Dash Open Source (https://github.com/plotly/dash https://github.com/plotly/dash) and Dash Enterprise (https://plotly.com/dash https://plotly.com/dash). Truth be told, we found that most companies we worked with preferred to own the analytical backend. We also heard many stories of organizations running into roadblocks with off-the-shelf SQL or BI tools (Falcon included!). Our approach with Dash is to provide the visualization and application primitives so that you could build your own tailor-made dashboards, analytical apps, or yes, even SQL editors.
If you want to read more about where we're at, here's an essay we wrote last week on Dash: https://medium.com/plotly/dash-is-react-for-python-r-and-julia-c75822d1cc24 https://medium.com/plotly/dash-is-react-for-python-r-and-jul...
- srameshc 6y agoI love it. The fact that one tool and with separate tabs you can connect to multiple database is the best feature. Thank you.
- fantyoon 6y agoAny reason the Github page advertises Windows and Mac but not Linux? I saw that its built in Javascript and checked the releases page,you guys built a Linux version too. Is it just something that, while possible, you don't want to support officially with more than a build?
- nicolaskruchten 6y agoJust an oversight :)
- ies7 6y agoThx for your pivottable.js, especially the jupyter notebook extension.
- nicolaskruchten 6y agoYou're welcome! I'm glad you like it :) I wish I had more time to work on the Jupyter version but Plotly Express and the JupyterLab Chart Editor keep me pretty busy at Plotly these days!
- sabas_ge 6y agoHi, just wanted to thank you for pivottable.js which I'm using since 6 years ago. I discovered today you're at plotly, I started using dash this year :)
- nicolaskruchten 6y agoI'm so glad you like it! Have you checked out the upgraded React version? https://react-pivottable.js.org/ https://react-pivottable.js.org/ There's even a Dash wrapper now: https://community.plotly.com/t/show-and-tell-dash-pivottable/20112 https://community.plotly.com/t/show-and-tell-dash-pivottable...
- sabas_ge 6y agoI'll try it in dash, my other project is still a jquery thing for the foreseeable future :D
- nicolaskruchten 6y agoReadMe has been updated with link to the Linux AppImage, now that I'm back at my desk.
- codegeek 6y agoCan we login to a remote database through ssh ?
- nicolaskruchten 6y agoThere’s no feature specifically for this but you can sometimes use an SSH tunnel and connect to localhost and have it work out. YMMV :)
- rhabarba 6y agoI actually like plotly.js, it seems to be one of the only good alternatives to R‘s Shiny library. Still, I prefer to keep JavaScript libraries inside a web browser.
- olabyne 6y agoHey ! I'm a very young engineer working with dash oss, it's a great lib (with plotly) ! Keep the good work
- say_it_as_it_is 6y agohey Chris Why would I use dash rather than jupyter notebook with inline plotting?
- spennant 6y agoFeature Request: Chrome Extension