Getting to know the Location and Link components
These components are part of Dash Core Components, and their names make quite clear what they are and what they might do. The Location component refers to the browser's location bar. It is also referred to as the address bar or the URL bar. We typically place a Location component in the app, and it doesn't produce anything visible. We mainly use it to discover where we are in the app, and based on that, we induce some functionality. Let's create a simple example to see how it can be used in its simplest form:
- Create a simple app:
import dash_html_components as html import dash_core_components as dcc from jupyter_dash import JupyterDash from dash.dependencies import Output, Input app = JupyterDash(__name__)
- Create a simple layout for the app containing a
Locationcomponent and, right underneath it, an emptydiv:app.layout = html.Div([ dcc.Location(id='location'), html.Div...