Improved compatibility with ipywidgtes and jupyter notebook

[mtomassoli]

Please review & test this. I fixed it out of necessity but I only tested this on my own system.

This should solve issue #490.

[theengineear]

Thanks for the PR @mtomassoli, I'll do some manual testing ASAP.

[etpinard]

... with #549 now merged, we could now add a few test cases for widgets in NBs.

[rskabelund]

Hello, wondering if this ever made it into master? Also, wondering about Jupyter 5.0 compatibility?

[dmourot]

Hi, i tried this on my computer with ipython 5.1.0 and it's working.
graphWidget.js is now on package_data/ so you need to apply small fix. I can provide a patch if you need to.
What is the next step to merge this into master ?
Thanks

[rskabelund]

@Nahman78 please elaborate on the small fix. I have been having to do so many workarounds to use plotly in Jupyter that I think could have been addressed using the graphwidget...

[stathius]

Hi, I've managed to apply the fix locally and works fine. stathius@c55f2a9

Is there a plan to merge it?
Thanks

[cleb11]

Any updates? I am still facing the same problem.

[astrojuanlu]

Do the plotly developers have plan to include these updates, or perhaps are they working on an alternative approach? Not sure how #490 and #627 relate to #821 and jupyterlab/jupyter-renderers#3. Any feedback would be appreciated, as I think there are a handful of people tracking those issues.

[jackparmer]

We're looking for some outside help for this and #821. No one at plotly has had time for the past year. Email me at jack at plot dot ly if interested.

[jackparmer]

@CalebS97 merged your PR here

GraphWidget is working OK for me on IPython v6.2.1, Python v3.6.3

Please let the thread know if you spot any issues.

[jonmmease]

Closing as FigureWidget has replaced the functionality of GraphWidget in version 3.