# Plots.jl but for GUI

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-but-for-gui/5905>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** proposal\
**Created:** [September 15, 2017, 11:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-but-for-gui/5905 "2017-09-15T11:44:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-but-for-gui/5905/6 "2017-09-15T18:34:56Z")

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I can’t agree more. I’ve been pushing for something like that for a while:

> [@Simple web app](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/simple-web-app/2578):
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> I want to build a simple web app that allows the user to control a few variables (maybe from a slider?) updating a graph from a web browser. Escher is ideal but not an option for Julia v0.5 [(see issue 199)](https://github.com/shashi/Escher.jl/issues/199). Do you guys know of any other simple way I can do this? Maybe something in Python? I’m looking for something really bare-bones and easy, something similar to Escher that hides all the ugliness. Thanks in advance!

> [@Hosting Web Apps in Julia](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hosting-web-apps-in-julia/1063/50):
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> This is really good. Thank you. I’d like however to add one perspective I suspect a lot of non-technical people would share: Being able to build a webapp for your package is a very attractive feature. It would be very useful to have some bare-bones, ultra simple, dumbed-down tutorial that includes some but not all of the components from this project. Maybe a simple sin plot with some input from the user? My point is that there are scores of scientists that built some cool package they’d like …

> [@Catering for non-coders](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/catering-for-non-coders/2674/4):
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> You are right about the scarcity of widely used research-related webapps. There aren’t many (if any). But the reason to publish one’s work as a webapp is not because it’ll be super popular or even useful to tons of people. The reason is that it’s one of the (potentially) easiest ways to grant people from group #1 access to your work. Again, the main crowd that would use the app is composed of researchers that want access to the functionality of your code. They don’t know how to code or even use…

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