# Interactive Visualisations/Dashboards in Julia?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/interactive-visualisations-dashboards-in-julia/943
**Category:** Visualization
**Created:** [December 14, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/interactive-visualisations-dashboards-in-julia/943 "2016-12-14T14:09:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@robertfeldt](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/robertfeldt)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/interactive-visualisations-dashboards-in-julia/943/1 "2016-12-14T14:09:31Z")
I’m developing an interactive “front-end” to present results from testing in Julia. At this point I have only tried a few “spikes”, mostly based on Escher.jl, but I would like to better understand if there are any alternatives. Immediate goals will be basically a kind of “dshboard” to present 1-2 graphs, descriptive statistics, and the failing assertions/tests in a simple list to the user. But over time, with many more types of testing being supported in Julia the interface might increasingly become a GUI of sorts. Obviously it will be important to support all/most platforms on which we can run Julia so I’m leaning towards a back-end that collects/serves data and then a html/javascript-based front-end. But if someone know of good and relevant libraries that I should look at, or know of additional pros/cons of already identified libs below, please share.
Alternatives identified so far:
- Escher.jl based front-end, can add components, d3.js, Vega etc for plots but also normal/interactive tables via html etc
- Interact.jl, not so clear what are the benefits, scope?
- GR.jl, can do interactive plots but less clear about other “GUI” elements?
- GLVisualize.jl, 2d/3d and pure Julia so maybe easier to code/control but not yet mature enough?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Steven\_Sagaert](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Steven_Sagaert)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2016, 2:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/interactive-visualisations-dashboards-in-julia/943/2 "2016-12-14T14:22:22Z")
plotlyJS.jl (& maybe plots.jl wrapper). Look no further for plots.
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### Author:  [@tbreloff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tbreloff)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/interactive-visualisations-dashboards-in-julia/943/3 "2016-12-14T14:35:15Z")
Here’s my view from the inside:
- Escher is theoretically a good option for web GUIs, though it needs some love to get it fully functional. I think there’s work happening on this right now… stay tuned.
- Interact is great for those cases where you want to answer “If I change this input/variable, how does the visualization change?”… it might not be featured enough for what you want, though maybe it is
- QML promises bindings to Qt5, and there’s active work to connect it with GR and possibly others
- GR will also likely have it’s own path to Qt5, so that it could be embedded in complex GUIs
- GLPlot/GLVisualize is set to be awesome, but it’s also very ambitious, so I would expect there will be small quirks until it matures more
I’m a long-time Qt developer, so I’m hopeful that people will continue working on making that integration seamless. Right now, I think all of these options will require the occasional hacking to get working.
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### Author:  [@vikram-rawat](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vikram-rawat)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/interactive-visualisations-dashboards-in-julia/943/4 "2018-05-15T15:30:44Z")
Is there a library to build a dashboard in Julia now???