Run Plotly's Orca on MyBinder without a Dockerfile.
Click on any launch binder badge on this page to launch an active session that includes a demonstration notebook.
You MOST LIKELY DO NOT NEED THIS REPO OR THE SESSION THAT LAUNCHES FROM IT!!!
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Usually using nbviewer, Jupyter's supported notebook viewer, the interactive Plotly plots show up. Although Github's rendering has improved vastly of late, nbviewer remains the way to view and share static versions notebooks that are hosted on GitHub. Compare this at Github vs. on nbviewer. Advise only relying on Github's viewer for a quick preview.
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Plus, Kaleido is the successor of Orca, and you should be using Kaleido presently if you want to generate static versions of Plotly plots.
Sessions launched from this repo will allow using commands in side a Jupyter environment to save Plotly-generated plots as static images in addition the more typical interactive Plotly plot. The static images are good for use elsewhere. And by combining it commandline/scripting it makes it possible to produce a lot of images without saving them by hand from the interactive form. To do this, it uses Plotly's orca. Learn more about Plotly's orca here and here.
This repo uses an approach alternative to Mathieu Boudreau's implementation with a Dockerfile. Here, requirements.txt is used for specifying most of the repo-specific dependencies. postBuild is uded to handle setting up orca. Additionally, apt.txt was used for replacing the first section of the Mathieu Boudreau's Dockerfile to install some critical apt packages. Except for the postBuild file these are just lists of needed packages or dependencies, and so they offer a way to more easily customize a repo than editing than a Dockerfile.
Click the badge to see a demonstration in a Jupyter notebook with a Python kernel served from MyBinder.org: