Plotly Cloud Templates

A collection of ready-to-publish Dash application templates built with 100% open-source software and optimized for Plotly Cloud.

🚀 Available Templates

This repository contains a diverse collection of Dash applications that showcase different use cases and functionalities:

🎮 Games & Interactive Apps

• Werdle - A Wordle-inspired word guessing game
• Sudoku - Interactive Sudoku puzzle game with multiple difficulty levels
• Guess the Flag - Educational flag identification game
• Tamadashi - Interactive dashboard application

📊 Data Visualization & Analytics

• Movie Genre Trends - Analyze and visualize movie genre popularity over time
• Montreal Metro Incidents - Transit incident data analysis and visualization
• Montreal Events - Event tracking and analytics dashboard
• Coffee Flavours - Coffee data visualization and analysis

📰 Content & News

• Dash News - Modern, responsive news dashboard template

🛠️ Technology Stack

All templates are built using 100% open-source technologies:

• Dash - Web framework for building analytical web applications
• Plotly - Interactive plotting and visualization library
• Pandas - Data manipulation and analysis
• Gunicorn - Python WSGI HTTP Server for publishing
• Additional libraries as needed per template (see individual requirements.txt files)

⚡ Quick Start

Publish to Plotly Cloud (Recommended)

1. Visit cloud.plotly.com
2. Create a new app and drag and drop all the files for a given template
3. Plotly Cloud will automatically detect the requirements.txt and publish your app!

Run Locally

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/plotly-cloud-templates.git
   cd plotly-cloud-templates

2. Navigate to your chosen template:

   cd <template-name>  # e.g., cd werdle

3. Create a virtual environment (recommended):

   python -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

4. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Run the application:

   python app.py

6. Open your browser and navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8050

📁 Template Structure

Each template follows a consistent structure:

template-name/
├── app.py              # Main Dash application
├── requirements.txt    # Python dependencies
├── assets/            # CSS, images, and other static files
├── data/              # Data files (if applicable)
└── README.md          # Template-specific documentation

🚀 Publish to Plotly Cloud

Plotly Cloud makes it incredibly easy to publish these templates:

1. No server management - Focus on your app, not infrastructure
2. Automatic scaling - Handle traffic spikes seamlessly
3. Built-in authentication - Secure your apps with ease
4. Custom domains - Use your own domain name
5. Collaboration tools - Share and collaborate on apps
6. Enterprise features - Advanced security and compliance options

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Feel free to:

• Add new templates
• Improve existing templates
• Fix bugs or enhance documentation
• Share your deployed apps

🔗 Links

• Plotly Cloud - Publish your Dash apps
• Dash Documentation - Learn more about Dash
• Plotly - Plotly graphing library docs
• Dash Community Forum - Get help and share ideas

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