# PlotlyJS example failure

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotlyjs-example-failure/40479>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Created:** [May 30, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotlyjs-example-failure/40479 "2020-05-30T19:15:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Honza9723](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/honza9723/32/7807_2.png) [@Honza9723](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Honza9723)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotlyjs-example-failure/40479/1 "2020-05-30T19:15:01Z")

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Dear All,

I would like to ask for help/advice with following problem. Previously, I used PlotlyJS on Julia 1.1.1 for plotting 3D objects. Unfortunately, after upgrading to Julia 1.4.2 (I deleted Atom + Julia and re-installed it from scratch), PlotlyJS ceased to work.

Here is a minimal working example of my problem (example code from documentation of PlotlyJS.jl). While Julia doesn’t report any problem running following code, nothing is displayed in the “Plots” window, even after using display() command. I also checked, that Plots.jl package works without any problem.

Could somebody please gave me some advice, how to dealt with this problem?

Best,  
Honza

```julia
using Pkg

Pkg.add("Plots")
Pkg.update("Plots")
Pkg.build("Plots")
Pkg.add("PlotlyJS")
Pkg.update("PlotlyJS")
Pkg.build("PlotlyJS")
using PlotlyJS

trace1 = PlotlyJS.scatter(;x=1:4, y=[10, 15, 13, 17], mode="markers")
trace2 = PlotlyJS.scatter(;x=2:5, y=[16, 5, 11, 9], mode="lines")
trace3 = PlotlyJS.scatter(;x=1:4, y=[12, 9, 15, 12], mode="lines+markers")
Pllt = PlotlyJS.plot([trace1, trace2, trace3])

display(Pllt)

```

Here is my version info

```julia
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-8.0.1 (ORCJIT, skylake)
Environment:
  JULIA_EDITOR = "C:\Users\janze\AppData\Local\atom\app-1.47.0\atom.exe" -a
  JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 6

```

And Repl output when I downloaded and built packages

```julia
 Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org   
  (_) | (_) (_) |
   _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.       
  | | | | | | |/ _` | |
  | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 1.4.2 (2020-05-23)
 _/ |\ __'_|_|_|\__'_| | Official https://julialang.org/ release     
|__/ |
 registry at `C:\Users\janze\.julia\registries\General`
   Updating git-repo `https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git` 
  Resolving package versions...
   Updating `C:\Users\janze\.julia\environments\v1.4\Project.toml`    
 [no changes]
   Updating `C:\Users\janze\.julia\environments\v1.4\Manifest.toml`   
 [no changes]
   Updating registry at `C:\Users\janze\.julia\registries\General`    
   Updating git-repo `https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git` 
   Updating `C:\Users\janze\.julia\environments\v1.4\Project.toml`    
 [no changes]
   Updating `C:\Users\janze\.julia\environments\v1.4\Manifest.toml`   
 [no changes]
   Building GR ───→ `C:\Users\janze\.julia\packages\GR\cRdXQ\deps\build.log`
   Building Plots → `C:\Users\janze\.julia\packages\Plots\JKY3H\deps\build.log`
  Resolving package versions...
   Updating `C:\Users\janze\.julia\environments\v1.4\Project.toml`
 [no changes]
   Updating `C:\Users\janze\.julia\environments\v1.4\Manifest.toml`   
 [no changes]
   Updating registry at `C:\Users\janze\.julia\registries\General`
   Updating git-repo `https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git` 
   Updating `C:\Users\janze\.julia\environments\v1.4\Project.toml`    
 [no changes]
   Updating `C:\Users\janze\.julia\environments\v1.4\Manifest.toml`   
 [no changes]
   Building WebIO ───→ `C:\Users\janze\.julia\packages\WebIO\nTMDV\deps\build.log`
   Building Blink ───→ `C:\Users\janze\.julia\packages\Blink\u1xcH\deps\build.log`
   Building PlotlyJS → `C:\Users\janze\.julia\packages\PlotlyJS\AhkM5\deps\build.log

```

 ![Grph](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/5/0/5094941f520e6638e2ed5066fb217483b56e70f6.png)

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**Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotlyjs-example-failure/40479/2 "2020-05-31T00:03:33Z")

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Works for me with

```julia
julia> versioninfo()                                                  
Julia Version 1.5.0-beta1.0                                           
Commit 6443f6c95a (2020-05-28 17:42 UTC)                              
Platform Info:                                                        
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)                                    
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz                      
  WORD_SIZE: 64                                                       
  LIBM: libopenlibm                                                   
  LLVM: libLLVM-9.0.1 (ORCJIT, sandybridge)                           
Environment:                                                          
  JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 1   

```

Both from the repl and from a script.

Edit: Now I realize that may be what needed to be tested was Atom. I ran it in Sublime Text 4.

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**Author:** ![Honza9723](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/honza9723/32/7807_2.png) [@Honza9723](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Honza9723)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 12:10am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotlyjs-example-failure/40479/3 "2020-05-31T00:10:36Z")

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> [@PetrKryslUCSD](#):
>
> Edit: Now I realize that may be what needed to be tested was Atom. I ran it in Sublime Text 4.

What puzzles me a bit is the fact, that previously it worked without any problem in Atom :D. When I run it in script/repl, it doesn’t throw any error, everything looks perfectly ok, except that “plots” window remains dark…

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**Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 12:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotlyjs-example-failure/40479/4 "2020-05-31T00:25:06Z")

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Does it work _without_ Plots, just PlotlyJS? It does for me.

By the way, my plot comes up in an Electron window, is not integrated into the IDE.

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**Author:** ![Honza9723](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/honza9723/32/7807_2.png) [@Honza9723](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Honza9723)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotlyjs-example-failure/40479/5 "2020-05-31T00:47:00Z")

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I tried it also without Plots.jl, it doesn’t work either way.

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**Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 8:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotlyjs-example-failure/40479/6 "2020-05-31T08:13:34Z")

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Relevant issue: [[BUG] Plotly plot is black in Juno · Issue #2704 · JuliaPlots/Plots.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl/issues/2704)  
TL;DR: It’s broken on Atom and should be fixed when Atom v1.48 gets released.

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**Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 10:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotlyjs-example-failure/40479/7 "2020-05-31T10:13:59Z")

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Thank you very much!

Could this issue be temporarily fixed by downgreading atom?

Best,  
Honza

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**Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotlyjs-example-failure/40479/8 "2020-05-31T16:19:10Z")

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should be

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**Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotlyjs-example-failure/40479/9 "2020-06-03T16:29:16Z")

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You can disable the plot window in Atom/Juno by going to Juno, Settings, UI Options, and unchecking the Enable Plot Pane setting. Then PlotlyJS will launch separate windows with your graphs.

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**Author:** ![Honza9723](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/honza9723/32/7807_2.png) [@Honza9723](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Honza9723)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotlyjs-example-failure/40479/10 "2020-06-03T17:19:03Z")

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Thank you very much!

This is at least temporary solution.