enable plotly express figure composition
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Description
It would be really nice to be able to take two figures created with Plotly Express (or really anything else) and "glue them together" side by side or one above the other, something like fig3 = compose([fig1, fig2, fig3], orientation="h") or something even more powerful.
I love how ggplot patchwork https://github.com/thomasp85/patchwork and Altair https://altair-viz.github.io/user_guide/compound_charts.html do this!
See also Overlaying: #2648
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing how Plotly Express creates figures and the related Overlaying issue #2648, then compare the requested composition behavior with ggplot patchwork and Altair compound charts. The issue is complete when a defined API can combine existing figures horizontally or vertically, with the intended behavior and scope agreed.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- plotly, python
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100