xaxis_yaxis

{
    showticklabels: true,
    autotick: true,
    ticks: {
        type: "inside",
        visible: true,
        tick0: 0,
        dtick: 1,
        length: 5,
        line: {
            width: 1,
            color: "rgba(0,0,0,1)",
        },
        nticks: 0,
        angle: 0,
        font: {
            family: "",
            size: 16,
            color: ""
        }
    }
}

??? can't recall the functionality of these...
tickexponent
tickround (round tick numbers?)

there's really no reason to keep users from entering things like ticklength, tickwidth, etc from xaxis...
this is sort of the direction i want to take the python api, you *can* set things where you want if they follow
the proper logic, but we *nudge* users to check out the highly-organized json structure.