PlotlyJS backend not working in Jupyter Notebook on VS Code

Tooling Jupyter-Notebook
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The following code:

using Plots
plotlyjs()
plot(rand(10,4),rand(10,4),rand(10,4))

Runs perfectly fine as a .jl in my vscode environment, but the same code just runs forever when inside of a Jupyter notebook in VS Code. Any ideas on how how to fix this?

IJulia v1.24.0
Plotly v0.4.1
PlotlyJS v0.18.10
Plots v1.38.7

2

Are you using the same Julia environment in both cases?

Can you run other commands in the Jupyter notebook?

3

Yes, it’s the same environment. I have been using Jupyter for everything, and have yet to come across anything that doesn’t work in Jupyter but works in REPL.

4

I’ve had trouble getting plotlyjs() to run as the backend in VSCode Jupyter notebook. It does run from the REPL without issue.

My packages are:
PlotlyJS v0.18.10
Plots v1.38.12
StatsPlots v0.15.5

I did have IJulia and Conda installed but couldn’t use plotlyhs at all in vscode jupyter. I removed those, and now on first load of VSCode, I can set plotlyjs() as the backend inside a jupyter notebook and plot with Plots (or StatsPlots). I can run as many plots as I like in the notebook. Once I close VSCode and reload later, plotlyjs() just runs forever and no plots show. If I reboot, and load VSCode, they’ll plot again until I close. Then I can’t plot until I reboot.

5

This works fine on my reference deployment using the JupyterLab Julia docker stack:

plotlyjs
plotlyjs2000×1536 208 KB

OS: Debian 11 (bullseye), Architecture: x86_64
code-server v4.13.0 (aka Code v1.78.2)
Code Jupyter extension v2023.3.100
Code Julia extension v1.47.2
Julia v1.9.0

IJulia v1.24.0
PlotlyJS v0.18.10
Plots v1.38.14

What makes this project different:

  1. Multi-arch: linux/amd64, linux/arm64/v8
  2. Base image: Debian instead of Ubuntu
  3. IDE: code-server next to JupyterLab
  4. Just Python – no Conda / Mamba
6

I’m also having the same issue. The following giving output in REFL

using Plots
plotlyjs()
plot(sin, (x->begin
            sin(2x)
        end), 0, 2π, line = 4, leg = false, fill = (0, :orange))

But in Jupyter Notebook it’s continuing to run on and if I interrupt the kernel it’s giving output.

I’m using Julia 1.9.0 and have the following packages.

[0c46a032] DifferentialEquations v7.7.0
[28b8d3ca] GR v0.72.7
[7073ff75] IJulia v1.24.2
[f0f68f2c] PlotlyJS v0.18.10
[91a5bcdd] Plots v1.38.15
[f2b01f46] Roots v2.0.17

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Apparently this issue hasn’t gone away. I’m using VSCode and the latest Julia version and packages as of 10/20/23: Julia 1.9.3, IJulia 1.24.2, PlotlyJS 0.18.11, and Plots 1.39.0. The using PlotlyJS statement never returns. Any help would be appreciated.

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