dash-colorscales 🌈

Add a fancy colorscale picker to your Dash apps. DashColorscales wraps react-colorscales for use in Dash.

👉 Simple demo

👉 Advanced demo (code)

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Getting started

pip install dash_colorscales

Usage

import dash_colorscales
import dash
import dash_html_components as html
import json

app = dash.Dash('')

app.scripts.config.serve_locally = True

app.layout = html.Div([
    dash_colorscales.DashColorscales(
        id='colorscale-picker',
        nSwatches=7,
        fixSwatches=True
    ),
    html.P(id='output', children='')
])

@app.callback(
        dash.dependencies.Output('output', 'children'),
        [dash.dependencies.Input('colorscale-picker', 'colorscale')])
def display_output(colorscale):
    return json.dumps(colorscale)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run_server(debug=True)

API

The DashColorscales component accepts these optional properties:

| prop | Description | | -------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | id | Optional: Identifier used to reference component in callbacks | | colorscale | Optional: Default colorscale as an array of color strings (HEX or RGB). Defaults to viridis. | | nSwatches | Optional: Number of discrete colors or "swatches" in the default color scale. | | fixSwatches | Optional: If set to True, hides the swatches slider and fixes swatches to nSwatches. |