Undo, Restore state, Generate code from GUI interactions about pygwalker

[longxiaofei]

@jorisroovers Hi, this feature has been added.

You can try the pre-release version first.

pre-release 0.2.0: here

Also look forward to your feedback, Thanks♪(･ω･)ﾉ

[Asm-Def]

Generate code from GUI interactions; State restoration & Undo

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26384396 (bamboolib author)
  
  * https://github.com/mito-ds/monorepo
  * https://github.com/tkrabel/bamboolib
  * https://github.com/man-group/dtale#predefined-filters
  * from https://docs.trymito.io/getting-started/overview-of-the-mitosheet :

Thanks a lot! This feature sounds cool, I'll try to make it work.

[jorisroovers]

This has been on my wishlist since discovering pygwalker - glad to see this issue opened.

I haven't clicked through on all the links above, but I'd love if we could just point to a file store:

gwalker = pyg.walk(df, store="myfile.json")

In the UI there would then be a save button (optionally auto-save) that saves the current config to this file.
When restarting the notebook kernel and rerunning the cell, the UI would then be repopulated with saved state. Undo/Redo is nice-to-have.

My utopia would be that this stored file/dashboard can then also be easily be imported into a standalone Graphic Walker instance, so the dashboard can then be shared with non-analysts in the team.
In this case, the user should be able to replace the data source with one that's available on the standalone Graphic Walker.

[longxiaofei]

@jorisroovers I agree with your suggestion, we will add this feature in next version.

[westurner]

Thanks!

[westurner]

With RTC, who clicked what in order to replay the series of (reversible) transformations is probably somewhat helpful:

• https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howto/configure/rtc.html
• jupyterhub/zero-to-jupyterhub-k8s#2488 (comment)
• jupyterlite/jupyterlite#464
  • git
  • GDrive,
• https://github.com/jupyterlab/rtc
  • https://blog.jupyter.org/how-we-made-jupyter-notebooks-collaborative-with-yjs-b8dff6a9d8af
  • Y.js CRDT
  • https://github.com/yjs/yjs
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_type
  • https://github.com/manics/jupyterhub-rtc-example

[longxiaofei]

Hi @jorisroovers, the latest version of pygwalker supports you to export the chart config in the UI, you can be repopulated by this way.

Pygwalker team is also exploring some more friendly ways to export and repopulated recently.

[jorisroovers]

@longxiaofei I believe that feature has been there for a while no?

My suggestion is slightly differently, as it would auto-restore any charts when re-running a notebook. This repeatability aspect without additional actions is key IMO.