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Data plots layouts

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Description

The Julia ecosystem has a number of grid layouts optimised for charts and plots with titles, axes and so on. It has an extremely stateful and side-effect-driven API, but the underlying logic seems sound and results in very nice and flexible placement of elements. Once the widget set and layouts for this toolkit mature a bit, it would be nice to explore these kinds of layouts. They are more generally applicable than plotting. For example, flexibly attaching labels to input widgets while maintaining good alignment.

For example:

https://docs.juliahub.com/AbstractPlotting/6fydZ/0.14.1/makielayout/grids.html
https://docs.juliaplots.org/latest/layouts/

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Research direction

Start by reading the linked AbstractPlotting and JuliaPlots layout documentation, then inspect the toolkit's current widget and layout APIs. The issue names no files or tests; done would require a concrete, agreed scope for reusable chart-style layouts and a demonstrated implementation, rather than the exploratory idea described here.

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Assessment

Tech stack
julia, rust
Domain
design, frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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