Plost – a deceptively simple plotting library • Hacker News Board

Check out the example app, linked in the README. I meant for that to be a replacement for the README, since it actually lets you interact with the plots.

But I'll add a picture to GitHub anyway

Re: Plost – a deceptively simple plotting library

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Post by tvst » Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 2:21 AM UTC

mkj wrote: post #2

Looks useful. Vega-Lite is TypeScript (?), how does that distribute/integrate with Plost in python?

This is a library for use in Streamlit (which is a Python framework for data apps), and Streamlit already supports Vega-Lite behind the scene. So I'm just riding on their Vega-Lite.

Here's more info about Streamlit: https://streamlit.io

(BTW I'm a cofounder there :) )

Re: Plost – a deceptively simple plotting library

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Post by zachwill » Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 3:42 AM UTC

tvst wrote: post #5

Oh hey, fancy seeing this here! I'm the author I'll try to answer questions below.

Nice work on this library! Hadn’t come across it before. I’ve been using Streamlit quite a bit the last few months and really enjoy it. Have a few ideas in mind for incorporating plost after going through the sample app and seeing the event plots!

Re: Plost – a deceptively simple plotting library

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Post by jdnier » Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 4:12 AM UTC

tvst wrote: post #7

mkj wrote: post #2

Looks useful. Vega-Lite is TypeScript (?), how does that distribute/integrate with Plost in python?

This is a library for use in Streamlit (which is a Python framework for data apps), and Streamlit already supports Vega-Lite behind the scene. So I'm just riding on their Vega-Lite. Here's more info about Streamlit: https://streamlit.io (BTW I'm a cofounder there :) )

Thanks, I had never run across Streamlit, which looks very mature. I'll try out Plost.

Re: Plost – a deceptively simple plotting library

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Post by punk_ihaq » Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 4:19 AM UTC

So much more convenient to use over writing verbose Vega-Lite / Altair. Wow, great job on this library!