Plotly integration broken?

[iabraham]

I apologize in advance if this is the wrong repository to bring this up (the other option being the quarto-cli repo). I originally posted about this on StackOverflow and was told in the comments to try posting it here -- so following that advice (also because this used to work with the old IJulia based method).

Basically, I have a Quarto markdown file trying to make a plot in Julia. The plot shows up with the gr backend but not with the plotly backend. For an MWE the project YAML is as follows

_quarto.yml file

project:
  title: "Quarto for preprints"
  execute-dir: project
  output-dir: .
  preview:
    port: 4240
    browser: false

The notebook file itself is as follows:

index.qmd file

---
title: "Quarto for preprints"
engine: julia
author:
  - name: John Doe
    affiliations: 
        department: CSL
format:
    html: 
      toc: true
      anchor-sections: true
      self-contained: true
      embed-resources: true
      standalone: true
      grid: 
        margin-width: 350px
      code-tools:
        source: true
        toggle: false
execute: 
  echo: true
  cache: true 
  keep-ipynb: false
  freeze: false
---

Dorem ipsum etc. 

## Background 

More dorem ipsum. 

```{julia}
#| echo: false
try
  using Plots
catch e 
  import Pkg
  Pkg.add("Plots");
  Pkg.add("PlotlyBase");
  Pkg.add("PlotlyKaleido");
finally
  using Plots
  plotly()
end
```

```{julia}
t=0:0.1:10
plot(t, sin.(2*t), label="sin(2t)", title="A simple plot", xlabel="Time (s)",
     ylabel="Amplitude")
```

Issue could be related to this but that issue is closed and reportedly fixed. Maybe a different fix is required with Julia?

[MichaelHatherly]

We've not implemented anything specific for the case of using plotly as the Plots.jl backend as far as I can recall, so it's not likely to work currently. It's not a package combination that I've used in a very long time so will be unlikely that we'll work on it ourselves, but we'd happily take a community contribution to address it if you, or someone else wants to take it on.