diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 6b6c0284..9c172eb9 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ JSON = "682c06a0-de6a-54ab-a142-c8b1cf79cde6"
 LinearAlgebra = "37e2e46d-f89d-539d-b4ee-838fcccc9c8e"
 Measures = "442fdcdd-2543-5da2-b0f3-8c86c306513e"
 NaNMath = "77ba4419-2d1f-58cd-9bb1-8ffee604a2e3"
+PGFPlotsX = "8314cec4-20b6-5062-9cdb-752b83310925"
 Pkg = "44cfe95a-1eb2-52ea-b672-e2afdf69b78f"
 PlotThemes = "ccf2f8ad-2431-5c83-bf29-c5338b663b6a"
 PlotUtils = "995b91a9-d308-5afd-9ec6-746e21dbc043"
diff --git a/src/backends.jl b/src/backends.jl
index 26f01c91..d8074d35 100644
--- a/src/backends.jl
+++ b/src/backends.jl
@@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ end
 @init_backend PlotlyJS
 @init_backend GR
 @init_backend PGFPlots
+@init_backend PGFPlotsX
 @init_backend InspectDR
 @init_backend HDF5
 
@@ -661,3 +662,57 @@ const _inspectdr_marker = Symbol[
 ]
 
 const _inspectdr_scale = [:identity, :ln, :log2, :log10]
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# pgfplotsx
+
+const _pgfplotsx_attr = merge_with_base_supported([
+    :annotations,
+    :background_color_legend, :background_color_inside, :background_color_outside,
+    :foreground_color_legend, :foreground_color_grid, :foreground_color_axis,
+    :foreground_color_text, :foreground_color_border,
+    :label,
+    :seriescolor, :seriesalpha,
+    :linecolor, :linestyle, :linewidth, :linealpha,
+    :markershape, :markercolor, :markersize, :markeralpha,
+    :markerstrokewidth, :markerstrokecolor, :markerstrokealpha,
+    :fillrange, :fillcolor, :fillalpha,
+    :bins,
+    :layout,
+    :title, :window_title,
+    :guide, :lims, :ticks, :scale, :flip,
+    :match_dimensions,
+    :titlefontfamily, :titlefontsize, :titlefonthalign, :titlefontvalign,
+    :titlefontrotation, :titlefontcolor,
+    :legendfontfamily, :legendfontsize, :legendfonthalign, :legendfontvalign,
+    :legendfontrotation, :legendfontcolor,
+    :tickfontfamily, :tickfontsize, :tickfonthalign, :tickfontvalign,
+    :tickfontrotation, :tickfontcolor,
+    :guidefontfamily, :guidefontsize, :guidefonthalign, :guidefontvalign,
+    :guidefontrotation, :guidefontcolor,
+    :grid, :gridalpha, :gridstyle, :gridlinewidth,
+    :legend, :legendtitle, :colorbar, :colorbar_title, :colorbar_entry,
+    :fill_z, :line_z, :marker_z, :levels,
+    :ribbon, :quiver,
+    :orientation,
+    :overwrite_figure,
+    :polar,
+    :aspect_ratio,
+    :normalize, :weights,
+    :inset_subplots,
+    :bar_width,
+    :arrow,
+    :framestyle,
+    :tick_direction,
+    :camera,
+    :contour_labels,
+])
+const _pgfplotsx_seriestype = [
+    :path, :scatter, :straightline,
+    :heatmap, :pie, :image,
+    :contour, :path3d, :scatter3d, :surface, :wireframe, :volume,
+    :shape
+]
+const _pgfplotsx_style = [:auto, :solid, :dash, :dot, :dashdot, :dashdotdot]
+const _pgfplotsx_marker = _allMarkers
+const _pgfplotsx_scale = [:identity, :log10]
+is_marker_supported(::PGFPlotsXBackend, shape::Shape) = false
diff --git a/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl b/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..27122d8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+function _show(io::IO, mime::MIME"image/svg+xml", plt::Plot{PGFPlotsXBackend})
+end
+
+function _show(io::IO, mime::MIME"application/pdf", plt::Plot{PGFPlotsXBackend})
+end
+
+function _show(io::IO, mime::MIME"application/x-tex", plt::Plot{PGFPlotsXBackend})
+end
+
+function _display(plt::Plot{PGFPlotsXBackend})
+
+end