diff --git a/src/lib/components/LayoutUpdater.react.js b/src/lib/components/LayoutUpdater.react.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6255863
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/components/LayoutUpdater.react.js
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+import { Component } from 'react';
+import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
+import { getGraphDiv, removeApplyRelayoutEvent } from '../utils/updaterUtils';
+
+
+
+/**
+ * LayoutUpdater is a component which updates the layout of a plotly graph.
+ */
+export default class LayoutUpdater extends Component {
+    static #previousLayout = {};
+
+    shouldComponentUpdate({ updateData }) {
+        return typeof updateData == 'object' && LayoutUpdater.#previousLayout !== updateData;
+    }
+
+    render() {
+        const { id, gdID, updateData, triggerRelayout } = this.props;
+        const idDiv = <div id={id}></div>;
+        if (!this.shouldComponentUpdate(this.props)) {
+            console.log("LayoutUpdater " + gdID + ": no update required");
+            console.log("LayoutUpdater no update: updateData: " + updateData);
+            return idDiv;
+        }
+        console.log("LayoutUpdater " + gdID + ": update required");
+        console.log("LayoutUpdater update: updateData: " + updateData);
+
+        LayoutUpdater.#previousLayout = updateData;
+        let trgrRelayout = triggerRelayout;
+        if (updateData.hasOwnProperty('triggerRelayout')) {
+            trgrRelayout =updateData.triggerRelayout;
+            delete updateData.triggerRelayout;
+        }
+
+        let graphDiv = getGraphDiv(gdID);
+        if (trgrRelayout === true) { Plotly.relayout(graphDiv, updateData); }
+        else { removeApplyRelayoutEvent(graphDiv, updateData); }
+        return idDiv;
+    }
+}
+
+LayoutUpdater.defaultProps = {
+    triggerRelayout: false,
+};
+
+LayoutUpdater.propTypes = {
+    /**
+     * The ID used to identify this component in Dash callbacks.
+     */
+    id: PropTypes.string,
+
+    /**
+     * The id of the graph-div whose layout will be updated.
+     *
+     * .. Note:
+     *
+     *   * if you use multiple graphs; each graph MUST have a unique id; otherwise we
+     *     cannot guarantee that resampling will work correctly.
+     *   * LayoutUpdater will determine the html-graph-div by performing partial matching
+     *     on the "id" property (using `gdID`) of all divs with classname="dash-graph".
+     *     It will select the first item of that match list; so if multiple same
+     *     graph-div IDs are used, or one graph-div-ID is a subset of the other (partial
+     *     matching) there is no guarantee that the correct div will be selected.
+     */
+    gdID: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
+
+    /**
+     * Whether a Relayout will be triggered after the update or not.
+     */
+    triggerRelayout: PropTypes.bool,
+
+    /**
+     * The layout update data dict.
+     * If this contains the `triggerRelayout` key, it will be used to determine whether
+     * a relayout-event will be triggered or not.
+     */
+    updateData: PropTypes.object,
+
+    /**
+     * Dash-assigned callback that should be called to report property changes
+     * to Dash, to make them available for callbacks.
+     */
+    setProps: PropTypes.func
+};
diff --git a/src/lib/components/TraceUpdater.react.js b/src/lib/components/TraceUpdater.react.js
index f28bbe2..3ab5486 100644
--- a/src/lib/components/TraceUpdater.react.js
+++ b/src/lib/components/TraceUpdater.react.js
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ import {
     fromPairs,
     mapValues,
     zipObject,
-    isElement,
     uniq
 } from 'lodash';
+import { getGraphDiv } from '../utils/updaterUtils';
 
 
 // HELPER FUNCTIONS //
@@ -68,41 +68,25 @@ export default class TraceUpdater extends Component {
 
     static #previousLayout = null;
 
-    shouldComponentUpdate({updateData}) {
-        return isArray(updateData) && TraceUpdater.#previousLayout !== head(updateData);
+    shouldComponentUpdate({ updateData }) {
+        return isArray(updateData) && updateData.length > 1 && TraceUpdater.#previousLayout !== head(updateData);
     }
 
     render() {
         // VALIDATION //
         const {id, gdID, sequentialUpdate, updateData} = this.props;
         const idDiv = <div id={id}></div>;
-        if (!this.shouldComponentUpdate(this.props)) {
-            return idDiv;
-        }
-
-        // see this link for more information https://stackoverflow.com/a/34002028
-        let graphDiv = document?.querySelectorAll('div[id*="' + gdID + '"][class*="dash-graph"]');
-        if (graphDiv.length > 1) {
-            throw new SyntaxError("TraceUpdater: multiple graphs with ID=\"" + gdID + "\" found; n=" + graphDiv.length + " \n(either multiple graphs with same ID's or current ID is a str-subset of other graph IDs)");
-        } else if (graphDiv.length < 1) {
-            throw new SyntaxError("TraceUpdater: no graphs with ID=\"" + gdID + "\" found");
-        }
-
-        graphDiv = graphDiv?.[0]?.getElementsByClassName('js-plotly-plot')?.[0];
-        if (!isElement(graphDiv)) {
-            throw new Error(`Invalid gdID '${gdID}'`);
-        }
+        if (!this.shouldComponentUpdate(this.props)) { return idDiv; }
 
         // EXECUTION //
         TraceUpdater.#previousLayout = head(updateData);
+        let graphDiv = getGraphDiv(gdID);
         const traces = filterTraces(tail(updateData));
-
         if (sequentialUpdate) {
             formatTraces(traces).forEach(trace => plotlyRestyle(graphDiv, trace));
-        } else {
-            plotlyRestyle(graphDiv, mergeTraces(traces));
-        }
+        } else { plotlyRestyle(graphDiv, mergeTraces(traces)); }
 
+        // RETURN //
         return idDiv;
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/lib/index.js b/src/lib/index.js
index 9f54856..fbe43d5 100644
--- a/src/lib/index.js
+++ b/src/lib/index.js
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 /* eslint-disable import/prefer-default-export */
 import TraceUpdater from './components/TraceUpdater.react';
+import LayoutUpdater from './components/LayoutUpdater.react';
 
 export {
-    TraceUpdater
+    TraceUpdater,
+    LayoutUpdater
 };
diff --git a/src/lib/utils/updaterUtils.js b/src/lib/utils/updaterUtils.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fdb0fc5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/utils/updaterUtils.js
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+import { isElement } from "lodash";
+
+export function getGraphDiv(gdID) {
+    // see this link for more information https://stackoverflow.com/a/34002028
+    let graphDiv = document?.querySelectorAll('div[id*="' + gdID + '"][class*="dash-graph"]');
+    if (graphDiv.length > 1) {
+        throw new SyntaxError("LayoutUpdater: multiple graphs with ID=\"" + gdID + "\" found; n=" + graphDiv.length + " \n(either multiple graphs with same ID's or current ID is a str-subset of other graph IDs)");
+    } else if (graphDiv.length < 1) {
+        throw new SyntaxError("LayoutUpdater: no graphs with ID=\"" + gdID + "\" found");
+    }
+    graphDiv = graphDiv?.[0]?.getElementsByClassName('js-plotly-plot')?.[0];
+    if (!isElement(graphDiv)) {
+        throw new Error(`Invalid gdID '${gdID}'`);
+    }
+    return graphDiv;
+}
+
+
+Function.prototype.clone = function () {
+    let cloneObj = this;
+    if (this.__isClone) {
+        cloneObj = this.__clonedFrom;
+    }
+    let temp = function () { return cloneObj.apply(this, arguments); };
+    for (let key in this) {
+        temp[key] = this[key];
+    }
+    temp.__isClone = true;
+    temp.__clonedFrom = cloneObj;
+    return temp;
+};
+
+export async function removeApplyRelayoutEvent(graphDiv, updateData) {
+    let relayout_func = graphDiv._ev._events.plotly_relayout;
+    if (Array.isArray(relayout_func)) { relayout_func = relayout_func[0]; };
+    if (relayout_func == undefined) {
+        console.log('no relayout_func found for ' + graphDiv.parentNode.id);
+        return idDiv;
+    }
+    relayout_func = relayout_func.clone();
+    // console.log("relayout_func get: ", graphDiv.parentNode.id, relayout_func);
+    await graphDiv.removeAllListeners('plotly_relayout');
+    await Plotly.relayout(graphDiv, updateData);
+    console.log("relayout_func set: ", graphDiv.parentNode.id, " ", relayout_func);
+    await graphDiv.on('plotly_relayout', relayout_func);
+};
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diff --git a/usage.py b/usage.py
index 938d0f3..75e408a 100644
--- a/usage.py
+++ b/usage.py
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 import trace_updater
 import dash
-from dash.dependencies import Input, Output
+# from dash.dependencies import Input, Output
 import plotly.graph_objs as go
 from dash import html, dcc
 from plotly_resampler import FigureResampler
-from plotly_resampler.downsamplers import LTTB
+# from plotly_resampler.aggregation import LTTB, EveryNthPoint
 import numpy as np
 
 # Construct a high-frequency signal