PlotlyJS plots not longer rendered

[alexandrebouchard]

Describe the bug

Documentation pages that were generated with PlotlyJS.jl, which used to work, seems be broken at the moment due to a change in remote contents. Example:

https://pigeons.run/dev/output-plotting/

In Chrome Dev Tools, the console says:

Uncaught ReferenceError: plots_jl_plotly_init is not defined

Version info

Please provide the following:

1. output of julia command versioninfo()

Julia Version 1.11.5
Commit 760b2e5b739 (2025-04-14 06:53 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
  OS: macOS (arm64-apple-darwin24.0.0)
  CPU: 12 × Apple M2 Pro
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LLVM: libLLVM-16.0.6 (ORCJIT, apple-m2)
Threads: 8 default, 0 interactive, 4 GC (on 8 virtual cores)
Environment:
  JULIA_CMDSTAN_HOME = /Users/bouchard/bin/cmdstan-2.32.1

(bug is unrelated to the generation step)

2. Output running the following in Julia 0.7 or greater: using Pkg; pkg"status" (if you are on Julia 0.6 or earlier run Pkg.status())

Status `~/.julia/dev/Pigeons/docs/Project.toml`
⌃ [47edcb42] ADTypes v1.14.0
⌃ [c88b6f0a] BridgeStan v2.6.1
⌃ [31c24e10] Distributions v0.25.119
⌃ [ffbed154] DocStringExtensions v0.9.4
⌃ [e30172f5] Documenter v1.10.1
⌃ [366bfd00] DynamicPPL v0.35.8
⌃ [7da242da] Enzyme v0.13.35
⌃ [f6369f11] ForwardDiff v0.10.38
  [09f84164] HypothesisTests v0.11.5
⌃ [e5554034] InferenceReport v0.1.0
  [6fdf6af0] LogDensityProblems v2.1.2
⌃ [996a588d] LogDensityProblemsAD v1.13.0
⌅ [c7f686f2] MCMCChains v6.0.7
⌃ [da2b9cff] Mooncake v0.4.117
  [a15396b6] OnlineStats v1.7.1
  [0eb8d820] Pigeons v0.4.9 `..`
⌃ [a03496cd] PlotlyBase v0.8.20
⌃ [f0f68f2c] PlotlyJS v0.18.15
⌃ [91a5bcdd] Plots v1.40.13
  [37e2e3b7] ReverseDiff v1.16.1
  [8efc31e9] SplittableRandoms v0.1.2
  [f3b207a7] StatsPlots v0.15.7
  [9a3f8284] Random v1.11.0

[alexandrebouchard]

Interestingly, the issue occurs on the github-hosted page, but not when the documentation page is rendered and viewed locally. Is it possible it is due to some change in Github's cross domain loading rules?

[jd-foster]

Hi Alexandre, thanks for reporting. This particular issue at first glance looks like it has more to do with Plots.jl than PlotlyJS.jl.
The reason I say this is that the particular function your provided in your error message, plots_jl_plotly_init, was first introduced in Plots.jl v1.40.14 in the PR JuliaPlots/Plots.jl#5109
Interestingly, you have listed Plots v1.40.13 in your Project above, but perhaps the documentation builder has started using the newer version.

[alexandrebouchard]

Thank you for the quick response! Apologies, I should have said that the dependencies I listed are from my local version, while the one in the CI is indeed precisely Plots 1.40.14! I'll move my question to that repo.