Eleventy-Blog: Why St. Plotly Charts Avoid Deprecation

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Eleventy-Blog: Why St. Plotly Charts Avoid Deprecation
  • The Shock Divide Between Code & Warning First, surprising stat: once running "width=content" was warned, now it's the new way to avoid degradation.
  • Why the Change? Simple truth: keyword kwargs on Plotly plots are now banned - this isn’t a bug, it’s a clean pivot.
  • Core Clarity In plain English: the width argument replaces st.plotly_chart’s old kwargs. No surprises - never a hidden dependency.
  • Hidden Blind Spots Unexpected insight: deprecation warnings only when kwargs appeared - not when used correctly.
  • Controversy Avoided But there's a catch: overusing width leads to harder debugging. Do it - but understand why.
  • Bottom Line So: refactor now. The next block of code with width avoids the deprecation entirely. But there is a catch: always check config first before defaulting.

This isn’t just about code - it's about strategy. Safety beats shock.

Let me ask you: what’s one legacy line in your codebase that’s quietly failing without warning?