Hi @yeraydiazdiaz - Thanks for reaching out for feedback! Chris P here, author of Plotly Dash.
New user here, so I can only insert 2 links into my post, so apologies for the code-formatted links.
Speaking on behalf of the Dash community, we’d like to use PyPI search to better understand which PyPI packages are published by Dash community members. Here is our imperfect system right now:
- We added a Dash framework classifier
https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/6273and included that framework classifier in our cookiecutter pluginhttps://github.com/plotly/dash-component-boilerplate/pull/92so that any Dash component packages / plugins created after October 28, 2019 will be searchable on PyPI:https://pypi.org/search/?q=&o=&c=Framework+%3A%3A+Dash. There are currently 49 projects here. This works pretty well, but it:- Excludes components that were created before October 28, 2019. Component authors need to opt-in to including this in their
setup.py - Excludes packages or libraries that don’t start from the cookie cutter by authors that didn’t take the time to look up framework classifiers
- FWIW, we face the same issue with GitHub project topics since it’s opt-in:
https://github.com/topics/plotly-dash
- Excludes components that were created before October 28, 2019. Component authors need to opt-in to including this in their
- In Dash-land, we had a convention early on to prefix our libraries with
dash-, e.g.dash-core-components,dash-html-components,dash-renderer,dash-table. It seems this implicit naming convention has been adopted by some community members and there are many more (over 1,000) packages on pypi that start with"dash-"and seem related to our project:https://pypi.org/search/?q=dash-&o=.dashis a common name though and so not all of these packages are related to Plotly Dash. It’s relatively easy for me to determine if it’s related to Plotly Dash by reading the description results.
Besides searching for actual published packages, I use the search to find the GitHub repository from some package I’m interested in. For example, today I searched for dash-extensions:
I’m pretty much always interested in checking out the source code, so I immediately click on the “Homepage” when I discover one of these packages. Historically, I’ve found it a little confusing that Homepage is synonymous with GitHub repo. I think it would be nice if there was a link that explicitly said “Source Code” or “Repository”, but that’s not a big deal.
Hope this is helpful!