plotly/plotly.js
Open-source JavaScript charting library behind Plotly and Dash
Is plotly/plotly.js beginner-friendly?
The maintainers of plotly/plotly.js usually reply to a pull request within 1 day. 7 beginner-friendly issues are open now.
- Stars
- 18.3k
- Forks
- 2k
- Open beginner issues
- 7
- Indexed issues
- 728
- Avg merge
- 1d 19h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 21
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- License
- MIT
- Last GitHub push
- Sep 16, 2026
- Latest indexed
- Sep 19, 2026
- Contributing guide
- Contributing guide
- Code of conduct
- Code of conduct
- Beginner labels
- good first issue
How to contribute to plotly/plotly.js
- Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
- Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
- Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
- Pick one of the 7 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
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bug
Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 85/100
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chore P3 plotly-internal size: 3 task
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 77/100
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chore P1 plotly-internal size: 1 task
Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 82/100
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chore P3 plotly-internal size: 1 task
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100
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bug
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100
plotly/plotly.js#7648 · 3 comments ·
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bug infrastructure P2
Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 65/100
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feature good for agent P2 size: 3
Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100
plotly/plotly.js#3229 · 12 comments · 3 reactions ·
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