From 9f939fb515b0484648c39d9a9d4182d315009f02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cameron DeCoster <cameron.decoster@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2026 15:51:32 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] docs: Update quickstart in README

---
 README.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4964f7bfcb..e6e8efb53b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -39,7 +39,24 @@
 
 ## Quickstart
 
-`pip install plotly`
+### Graph Objects
+
+```
+pip install plotly
+```
+
+```python
+import plotly.graph_objects as go
+fig = go.Figure()
+fig.add_trace(go.Bar(x=["a", "b", "c"], y=[1, 3, 2]))
+fig.show()
+```
+
+### Plotly Express
+
+```
+pip install plotly[express]
+```
 
 ```python
 import plotly.express as px
@@ -47,6 +64,8 @@ fig = px.bar(x=["a", "b", "c"], y=[1, 3, 2])
 fig.show()
 ```
 
+You'll also need to install a [supported dataframe library](https://plotly.com/python/px-arguments/#supported-dataframe-types).
+
 See the [Python documentation](https://plotly.com/python/) for more examples.
 
 ## Overview
@@ -135,4 +154,3 @@ Code and documentation copyright 2026 Plotly, Inc.
 Code released under the [MIT license](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/blob/main/LICENSE.txt).
 
 Docs released under the [Creative Commons license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
-