Basics

[plotly.js][_plotlyjs] figures are constructed by calling the function:

Plotly.newPlot(divid, data, layout, config, frames)

where

divid is an html div element where the plot should appear
data is an array of JSON objects describing the various traces in the visualization
layout is a JSON object describing the layout properties of the visualization.
config is a JSON object describing the configuration properties of the visualization. See more detail here
frames can contain data and layout objects, which define any changes to be animated, and a traces object that defines which traces to animate.

The divid argument is handled automatically by one of the supported frontends, so users of this package will mostly be concerned about constructing the data, layout, and (optionally) config and frames arguments.

For a complete list of traces and their attributes see the [plotly.js chart attribute reference][_plotlyref].

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Julia types

There are a handful of core Julia types for representing a visualization

These are

abstract type AbstractTrace end
abstract type AbstractLayout end

mutable struct GenericTrace{T <: AbstractDict{Symbol,Any}} <: AbstractTrace
    fields::T
end

mutable struct Layout{T <: AbstractDict{Symbol,Any}} <: AbstractLayout
    fields::T
    subplots::_Maybe{Subplots}
end

mutable struct PlotlyFrame{T <: AbstractDict{Symbol,Any}} <: AbstractPlotlyAttribute
    fields::T
end

mutable struct Plot{TT<:AbstractVector{<:AbstractTrace},TL<:AbstractLayout,TF<:AbstractVector{<:PlotlyFrame}}
    data::TT
    layout::TL
    divid::UUID
    config::PlotConfig
    frames::TF
end

The data, layout, divid, config, and frames fields of the Plot type map 1-1 to the arguments to the Plotly.newplot function.