Reference

Core

Render any widget, and read any widget’s state.

render_widget	Reactively render an ipywidget.
output_widget()	Create an output container for a Shiny widget (i.e., a placeholder for an ipywidget rendered by a shinywidgets render decorator).
reactive_read()	Reactively read a widget trait.
as_widget()	Coerce an object into an ipywidgets.Widget.

Lifetimes

Choose whether a widget belongs to one session or is shared by all of them.

session_lifetime()	Give widgets constructed inside this block the lifetime of the Shiny session rather than of the current render.
shared_lifetime()	Construct one widget that every Shiny session displays.

Charts

render_plotly	Reactively render a plotly figure.
render_altair	Reactively render an altair chart.
render_bokeh	Reactively render a bokeh plot.
render_matplotlib	Reactively render a matplotlib figure as an interactive ipympl widget.
render_plotnine	Reactively render a plotnine plot as an interactive ipympl widget.
render_bqplot	Reactively render a bqplot figure.
render_holoviews	Reactively render a holoviews, hvPlot, or geoviews object.
render_jscatter	Reactively render a jupyter-scatter scatter plot.
render_obsplot	Reactively render an Observable Plot chart, created with pyobsplot.
render_panel	Reactively render a panel object.

Tables & grids

render_itables	Reactively render a pandas or polars data frame as an interactive itables (DataTables) table.
render_reactable	Reactively render a reactable table (the Python port of R’s reactable).
render_ipydatagrid	Reactively render a pandas DataFrame as an interactive ipydatagrid data grid.
render_perspective	Reactively render a perspective viewer.

Data exploration

render_pygwalker	Reactively render a PyGWalker data exploration app.
render_quak	Reactively render a quak data table.
render_mosaic_widget	Reactively render a Mosaic dashboard of linked, DuckDB-backed views.
render_embedding_atlas	Reactively render an Embedding Atlas explorer.

Maps & geospatial

render_ipyleaflet	Reactively render an ipyleaflet map.
render_leafmap	Reactively render a leafmap map.
render_maplibre	Reactively render a maplibre map.
render_lonboard	Reactively render a lonboard map.
render_geolibre	Reactively render a GeoLibre map – the full GeoLibre GIS app embedded as a widget.
render_keplergl	Reactively render a kepler.gl map.
render_pydeck	Deprecated: use pydeck layers with render_maplibre instead.

3D

render_k3d	Reactively render a k3d 3D plot.
render_pythreejs	Reactively render a pythreejs 3D scene.
render_pyvista	Reactively render a pyvista 3D plot.
render_ipyvolume	Reactively render an ipyvolume 3D plot.

Scientific

render_mols2grid	Reactively render a mols2grid molecule grid.
render_nglview	Reactively render an nglview molecular structure viewer.
render_vizarr	Reactively render a vizarr image viewer (for OME-NGFF/Zarr bioimages).
render_niivue	Reactively render a NiiVue neuroimaging viewer (volumes, overlays, and meshes), via ipyniivue.
render_ipyaladin	Reactively render an ipyaladin sky viewer (Aladin Lite).
render_rerun	Reactively render a rerun viewer.

Networks

render_ipycytoscape	Reactively render an ipycytoscape network graph.
render_ipysigma	Reactively render a graph with ipysigma (sigma.js).

Input & drawing

render_drawdata	Reactively render a drawdata drawing widget.
render_ipycanvas	Reactively render an ipycanvas canvas.
render_ipyfilechooser	Reactively render an ipyfilechooser file chooser.

Other

register_widget()	Deprecated. Use @render_widget instead.
bokeh_dependency()	Create an HTML dependency on bokeh’s JavaScript/CSS resources.