how to embed standalone bokeh graphs into django templates

Using the Embedding Bokeh Plots documentation example as suggested by Fabio Pliger, one can do this in Django:

in the views.py file, we put:

from django.shortcuts import render
from bokeh.plotting import figure
from bokeh.resources import CDN
from bokeh.embed import components

def simple_chart(request):
    plot = figure()
    plot.circle([1,2], [3,4])

    script, div = components(plot, CDN)

    return render(request, "simple_chart.html", {"the_script": script, "the_div": div})

in the urls.py file we can put :

from myapp.views import simple_chart 
...
...
...
url(r'^simple_chart/$', simple_chart, name="simple_chart"),
...
...

in the template file simple_chart.html we'll have :

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Experiment with Bokeh</title>
    <script src="http://cdn.bokeh.org/bokeh/release/bokeh-0.8.1.min.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn.bokeh.org/bokeh/release/bokeh-0.8.1.min.css">
</head>
<body>

    {{ the_div|safe }}

    {{ the_script|safe }}
</body>
</html>

And it works.


You don't need to use bokeh-server to embed bokeh plots. It just means you'll not be using (and probably don't need) the extra features it provides.

In fact you can embed bokeh plots in many ways like generating standalone html, by generating bokeh standalone components that you can then embed in you django app when rendering templates or with the method we call "autoloading" which makes bokeh return a tag that will replace itself with a Bokeh plot. You'll find better details looking at the documentation.

Another good source of inspiration is the embed examples you can find in the repository.

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Django

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