Live update of only data in Dash / plotly

Question

I want to track some data in real time and let the user select their ranges when interacting with charts. I created this small example (I got it from the tutorial), and the problem is that every time I update the plot, everything becomes reset, since it update_graph_live()returns a new Plotly figure. (see example below)

Is it possible to update only the data, so the figure does not restart, and reset - by default / settings? I used to use d3.js and send data via websockets, so I could filter the data in the browser. But I would like to do this with Dash directly.

import dash
from dash.dependencies import Output, Event
import dash_core_components as dcc
import dash_html_components as html
from random import random
import plotly

app = dash.Dash(__name__)
app.layout = html.Div(
    html.Div([
        html.H4('Example'),
        dcc.Graph(id='live-update-graph'),
        dcc.Interval(
            id='interval-component',
            interval=1*1000
        )
    ])
)


@app.callback(Output('live-update-graph', 'figure'),
              events=[Event('interval-component', 'interval')])
def update_graph_live():
    fig = plotly.tools.make_subplots(rows=2, cols=1, vertical_spacing=0.2)
    fig['layout']['margin'] = {
        'l': 30, 'r': 10, 'b': 30, 't': 10
    }
    fig['layout']['legend'] = {'x': 0, 'y': 1, 'xanchor': 'left'}

    fig.append_trace({
        'x': [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
        'y': [random() for i in range(5)],
        'name': 'Foo',
        'mode': 'lines+markers',
        'type': 'scatter'
    }, 1, 1)
    fig.append_trace({
        'x': [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
        'y': [random() for i in range(5)],
        'name': 'Bar',
        'type': 'bar'
    }, 2, 1)

    return fig


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run_server(debug=True)

Answer 1

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import dash
from dash.dependencies import Output, Event
import dash_core_components as dcc
import dash_html_components as html
from random import random
import plotly

app = dash.Dash(__name__)
app.layout = html.Div(
    html.Div([
        dcc.Graph(id='live-update-graph-scatter', animate=True),
        dcc.Graph(id='live-update-graph-bar'),
        dcc.Interval(
            id='interval-component',
            interval=1*1000
        )
    ])
)


@app.callback(Output('live-update-graph-scatter', 'figure'),
              events=[Event('interval-component', 'interval')])
def update_graph_scatter():

    traces = list()
    for t in range(2):
        traces.append(plotly.graph_objs.Scatter(
            x=[1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
            y=[(t + 1) * random() for i in range(5)],
            name='Scatter {}'.format(t),
            mode= 'lines+markers'
            ))
    return {'data': traces}

@app.callback(Output('live-update-graph-bar', 'figure'),
              events=[Event('interval-component', 'interval')])
def update_graph_bar():

    traces = list()
    for t in range(2):
        traces.append(plotly.graph_objs.Bar(
            x=[1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
            y=[(t + 1) * random() for i in range(5)],
            name='Bar {}'.format(t)
            ))
    layout = plotly.graph_objs.Layout(
    barmode='group'
)
    return {'data': traces, 'layout': layout}


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run_server(debug=True)