Introduction

Bento is a tool for building interactive dashboard applications, powered by a templating engine built on Plotly Dash. It lets you write a high-level description of your desired interactive dashboard and generates the application code for you. By providing a set of common building blocks and abstracting away some of the more complicated aspects, it aims to flatten the learning curve of dashboarding!

Bento follows a few principles in its goal of improving user productivity:

• Focus on one powerful, high-level object called the descriptor

• Allow users a selection of ready-made building blocks called banks

• Automatically handle component interactivity infrastructure

• Provide a simple theming and layout experience

An analogy can be drawn between Bento and desktop computer hardware. A motherboard ties together several different components in a way such that assembly can be performed without advanced knowledge of each piece. The user is just tasked with understanding what they want out of the finished product. In a similar way, creating the Bento descriptor should be as simple as understanding what you want the dashboard to do and then finding the right banks from the catalog.

For some inspiration, check out some sample Bento apps in this gallery.

To get a sense of what Plotly Dash can do, visit their app gallery.