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[ENH]: visual plot builder #29496
Description
Problem
Code is great, (learning) to code a bit less so.
For anybody not using matplotlib very often I'd say a visual builder would slash development time.
Proposed solution
Maybe start with https://matplotlib.org/stable/_images/anatomy.png and make it interactive ?
Especially in Jupyter(Lite) it would allow so many more people to start making reproducible plots
Activity
story645 commentedon Jan 20, 2025
Are you looking for something like #22634 #11415 or something like https://pylustrator.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
jklymak commentedon Jan 21, 2025
There is nothing in Matplotlib stopping anyone from making a "visual builder" as an external package. I don't think that should be a concern of the main library.
QuLogic commentedon Jan 21, 2025
This might be useful, but I don't think it belongs here. We are not UX designers and it's not really our area. It would be better as an external package. For example, Graphs.
agriyakhetarpal commentedon Jan 21, 2025
I don't know if this is helpful, but I found https://matplotlib.online/about from a quick search that uses Pyodide under the hood, and my impression is that it is as visual as it can get. I wasn't able to get it to fully work, though.
We also have some other projects listed on this page: https://pyodide.org/en/stable/project/related-projects.html, which you may draw inspiration from if you wish to build something of your own, as you are free to access all of the popular web APIs out there with Pyodide's JS FFI.
steltenpower commentedon Jan 22, 2025
As you've helped me with starter points outside here and implementing the idea is not part of this project, closing this issue