@mdtusz

Latest list of circular dependencies:

• Plots < --- > Annotations
• Plots < --- > Legend
• Plots < --- > Axes (the only Plots calls in axes.js are traceIs)
• Plots < --- > plotApi
• plotApi < --- > Annotations
• plotApi < --- > Shapes
• plotApi < --- > Titles
• plotApi < --- > Fx
• plotApit < --- > Legend

Possible partial solutions:

• Make a component registry and register the components (e.g. Annotations, Shapes, Titles, Fx, Legend), so plot_api.js doesn't have to require the full component modules (similar to trace and subplot modules). Blocking: we'll need a centralized api for the component module, e.g. all component modules should have a draw method and possible and init method.
• Use a more OO pattern (in the long term). Attach relayout and restyle to a plot object so that files requiring plot_api.js (e.g Annotations, Shapes and Fx) can use gd.relayout() instead of plotApi.relayout(gd, ...).