Why use Dash when Plotly plus Flask is easy and more flexible? Add a little bit of AJAX and you can add interactivity.

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This article explores using Flask and Plotly as an alternative to using Dash when creating Web apps. It compares a simple Dash app with a Flask/Plotly one and finds that the latter is easy and more flexible than it's Dash counterpart. You can find the code for the article in the Plotly folder.

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This article shows how to create a truly interactive app as you might with Dash with callbacks but using Plotly and Flask and a bit of AJAX. The code for this is in plotlycallback-gm.

A slightly modified version of the code above can be found here: plotlycallback-gm2. In this version no parameters are passed to the template and the chart is always loaded using Ajax. It also has the benefit of labelling the chart!

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The finance library for Python gives you access to Yahoo Finance data and Plotly and Flask let you build a stunning dashboard. With a Flask back end thaat leverages the yfinance library and Plotly, and a web front end that plots a Plotly chart loaded from the server,this article shows you how to create a simple finance web app that produces impressive results.

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