I don't get it. Why not just use Plotly and Dash directly, neither of which are especially hard? This seems like a pointless layer of abstraction.
Thank you for your feedback! I am one of the engineers on team :)
So we introduced this layer to serve as a configuration driven assembly system which implements built-in visual styling and an opinionated approach in terms of both application architecture and UX, in order to enable standardisation in code and user journeys for multi-screen applications and complex interactions between components.
- Spending about 5-10 minutes on your page, I also couldn't figure out why or what you were trying to do. The copy you wrote above is perhaps clearer, but not clear.
- You have less than 5-10 minutes to sell me on what you're doing.
- I began to get it when I clicked on the screenshot, and saw controls with vm.Filter(column=...
- To use this myself, I'd want to be able to add it incrementally to dash / plot.ly apps. You don't want to force yourself to be "the framework." You want to be able to slot into diverse places. The different pieces should be modular enough to do that.
- In one of your other posts, you wrote: "while it is currently optimised to leverage Plotly and Dash, it could theoretically utilise components from other packages such as StreamLit in future." This seems like a very bad idea. Plotly and dash are well-architected and expandable (it's trivial to integrate components from other sources with React). You don't want to reinvent the wheels plotly/dash invented. If you want to slot in other components, please use their architecture.
In other words, clearly communicate your value-add, and focus on that value-add. Don't try to do / be everything. Things outside of that value-add should be PRs back into dash / plot.ly, or independent, modular pieces in their own repos.
We are definitely taking these points into consideration.