Config#

The pn.config object holds global configuration options for Panel.

The options can be set directly on the global config instance, via keyword arguments to pn.extension or via environment variables.

For example to set the embed option the following approaches can be used:

pn.config.embed = True
pn.extension(embed=True)
os.environ['PANEL_EMBED'] = 'True'

Options Summary#

admin#

Whether the admin panel is enabled.

Default: False | Type: Boolean

admin_endpoint (PANEL_ADMIN_ENDPOINT)#

Name to use for the admin endpoint.

Default: None | Type: String

admin_log_level (PANEL_ADMIN_LOG_LEVEL)#

Log level of the Admin Panel logger

Default: ‘DEBUG’ | Type: Literal | Options: ‘DEBUG’, ‘INFO’, ‘WARNING’, ‘ERROR’, ‘CRITICAL’

admin_plugins#

A list of tuples containing a title and a function that returns an additional panel to be rendered into the admin page.

Default: [] | Type: List

apply_signatures#

Whether to set custom Signature which allows tab-completion in some IDEs and environments.

Default: True | Type: Boolean

auth_template#

A jinja2 template rendered when the authorize_callback determines that a user in not authorized to access the application.

Default: None | Type: Path

authorize_callback#

Authorization callback that is invoked when authentication is enabled. The callback is given the user information returned by the configured Auth provider and should return True or False depending on whether the user is authorized to access the application. The callback may also contain a second parameter, which is the requested path the user is making. If the user is authenticated and has explicit access to the path, then the callback should return True otherwise it should return False.

Default: None | Type: Callable

autoreload#

Whether to autoreload the page whenever the script or one of its dependencies changes.

Default: False | Type: Boolean

basic_auth (PANEL_BASIC_AUTH)#

Password, dictionary with a mapping from username to password or filepath containing JSON to use with the basic auth provider.

Default: None | Type: ClassSelector

basic_auth_template#

A jinja2 template to override the default Basic Authentication login page.

Default: None | Type: Path

browser_info#

Whether to request browser info from the frontend.

Default: True | Type: Boolean

comms (PANEL_COMMS)#

Whether to render output in Jupyter with the default Jupyter extension or use the jupyter_bokeh ipywidget model.

Default: ‘default’ | Type: Literal | Options: ‘default’, ‘ipywidgets’, ‘vscode’, ‘colab’

console_output (PANEL_CONSOLE_OUTPUT)#

How to log errors and stdout output triggered by callbacks from Javascript in the notebook.

Default: ‘accumulate’ | Type: Literal | Options: ‘accumulate’, ‘replace’, ‘disable’, ‘False’

css_files#

External CSS files to load.

Default: [] | Type: List

defer_load#

Whether to defer load of rendered functions.

Default: False | Type: Boolean

design#

The design system to use to style components.

Default: None | Type: ClassSelector

disconnect_notification#

The notification to display to the user when the connection to the server is dropped.

Default: ‘’ | Type: String

embed (PANEL_EMBED)#

Whether plot data will be embedded.

Default: False | Type: Boolean

embed_json (PANEL_EMBED_JSON)#

Whether to save embedded state to json files.

Default: False | Type: Boolean

embed_json_prefix (PANEL_EMBED_JSON_PREFIX)#

Prefix for randomly generated json directories.

Default: ‘’ | Type: String

embed_load_path (PANEL_EMBED_LOAD_PATH)#

Where to load json files for embedded state.

Default: None | Type: String

embed_save_path (PANEL_EMBED_SAVE_PATH)#

Where to save json files for embedded state.

Default: ‘./’ | Type: String

exception_handler#

General exception handler for events.

Default: None | Type: Callable

global_css#

List of raw CSS to be added to the header.

Default: [] | Type: List

global_loading_spinner#

Whether to add a global loading spinner for the whole application.

Default: False | Type: Boolean

inline (PANEL_INLINE)#

Whether to inline JS and CSS resources. If disabled, resources are loaded from CDN if one is available.

Default: True | Type: Boolean

js_files#

External JS files to load. Dictionary should map from exported name to the URL of the JS file.

Default: {} | Type: Dict

js_modules#

External JS files to load as modules. Dictionary should map from exported name to the URL of the JS file.

Default: {} | Type: Dict

layout_compatibility#

Provide compatibility for older layout specifications. Incompatible specifications will trigger warnings by default but can be set to error. Compatibility to be set to error by default in Panel 1.1.

Default: ‘warn’ | Type: Literal | Options: ‘warn’, ‘error’

load_entry_points#

Load entry points from external packages.

Default: True | Type: Boolean

loading_color#

Color of the loading indicator.

Default: ‘#c3c3c3’ | Type: Color

loading_indicator#

Whether a loading indicator is shown by default while panes are updating.

Default: False | Type: Boolean

loading_max_height#

Maximum height of the loading indicator.

Default: 400 | Type: Integer

loading_spinner#

Loading indicator to use when component loading parameter is set.

Default: ‘arc’ | Type: Literal | Options: ‘arc’, ‘arcs’, ‘bar’, ‘dots’, ‘petal’

log_level (PANEL_LOG_LEVEL)#

Log level of Panel loggers

Default: ‘WARNING’ | Type: Literal | Options: ‘DEBUG’, ‘INFO’, ‘WARNING’, ‘ERROR’, ‘CRITICAL’

notifications#

Whether to enable notifications functionality.

Default: False | Type: Boolean

npm_cdn (PANEL_NPM_CDN)#

The CDN to load NPM packages from if resources are served from CDN. Allows switching between https://unpkg.com and https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm for most resources.

Default: ‘https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm’ | Type: Literal | Options: ‘https://unpkg.com’, ‘https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm’

nthreads (PANEL_NTHREADS)#

When set to a non-None value a thread pool will be started. Whenever an event arrives from the frontend it will be dispatched to the thread pool to be processed.

Default: None | Type: Integer

oauth_encryption_key (PANEL_OAUTH_ENCRYPTION)#

A random string used to encode OAuth related user information.

Default: None | Type: ClassSelector

oauth_expiry (PANEL_OAUTH_EXPIRY)#

Expiry of the OAuth cookie in number of days.

Default: 1 | Type: Number

oauth_extra_params (PANEL_OAUTH_EXTRA_PARAMS)#

Additional parameters required for OAuth provider.

Default: {} | Type: Dict

oauth_guest_endpoints (PANEL_OAUTH_GUEST_ENDPOINTS)#

List of endpoints that can be accessed as a guest without authenticating.

Default: None | Type: List

oauth_jwt_user (PANEL_OAUTH_JWT_USER)#

The key in the ID JWT token to consider the user.

Default: None | Type: String

oauth_key (PANEL_OAUTH_KEY)#

A client key to provide to the OAuth provider.

Default: None | Type: String

oauth_optional (PANEL_OAUTH_OPTIONAL)#

Whether the user will be forced to go through login flow or if they can access all applications as a guest.

Default: False | Type: Boolean

oauth_provider (PANEL_OAUTH_PROVIDER)#

Select between a list of authentication providers.

Default: None | Type: Literal | Options: ‘None’

oauth_redirect_uri (PANEL_OAUTH_REDIRECT_URI)#

A redirect URI to provide to the OAuth provider.

Default: None | Type: String

oauth_refresh_tokens (PANEL_OAUTH_REFRESH_TOKENS)#

Whether to automatically refresh access tokens in the background.

Default: False | Type: Boolean

oauth_secret (PANEL_OAUTH_SECRET)#

A client secret to provide to the OAuth provider.

Default: None | Type: String

profiler#

The profiler engine to enable.

Default: None | Type: Literal | Options: ‘pyinstrument’, ‘snakeviz’, ‘memray’

raw_css#

List of raw CSS strings to add to load.

Default: [] | Type: List

ready_notification#

The notification to display when the application is ready and fully loaded.

Default: ‘’ | Type: String

reuse_sessions#

Whether to reuse a session for the initial request to speed up the initial page render. Note that if the initial page differs between sessions, e.g. because it uses query parameters to modify the rendered content, then this option will result in the wrong content being rendered. Define a session_key_func to ensure that reused sessions are only reused when appropriate.

Default: False | Type: Boolean

safe_embed#

Ensure all bokeh property changes trigger events which are embedded. Useful when only partial updates are made in an app, e.g. when working with HoloViews.

Default: False | Type: Boolean

session_history#

If set to a non-negative value this determines the maximum length of the pn.state.session_info dictionary, which tracks information about user sessions. A value of -1 indicates an unlimited history.

Default: 0 | Type: Integer

session_key_func#

Used in conjunction with the reuse_sessions option, the session_key_func is given a tornado.httputil.HTTPServerRequest and should return a key that uniquely captures a session.

Default: None | Type: Callable

sizing_mode#

Specify the default sizing mode behavior of panels.

Default: None | Type: Literal | Options: ‘fixed’, ‘stretch_width’, ‘stretch_height’, ‘stretch_both’, ‘scale_width’, ‘scale_height’, ‘scale_both’, ‘None’

template#

The default template to render served applications into.

Default: None | Type: Literal | Options: ‘bootstrap’, ‘fast’, ‘fast-list’, ‘material’, ‘golden’, ‘slides’, ‘vanilla’

theme#

The theme to apply to components.

Default: None | Type: Literal | Options: ‘default’, ‘dark’

throttled#

If sliders and inputs should be throttled until release of mouse.

Default: False | Type: Boolean