Vega Viewer
Vega Viewer provides language support & Interactive Preview of Vega &
Vega-Lite JSON spec graphs 📈
You can use it in a disconnected mode, unlike other online dataViz devTools, to prototype your maps 🗺️ & graphs 📈 on a go, on a ✈️, on a 🚄, on a 🚤, in a 📦 with a 🐐,
and no d3 py plotly || rstats required! :)
Features
- Create Vega || Vega-Lite JSON
{} spec documents
- Vega & Vega-Lite Graphs Preview 📈
- Local & http(s) data files support
- SVG & PNG Graph Export options
- Over 640 searchable built-in Vega & Vega-Lite Examples
- Vega Themes Preview
- Load Vega specs from online Vega Editor or github gists
- Preview Vega graphs 📈 from ⭐️ Starred Gists, Playgrounds & featured Data Visualizations in GistPad 📘
- View and Share Vega(-Lite) spec in the online Vega Editor
- Referenced CSV & JSON data display via Data Preview 🈸
Settings
Install Data Preview 🈸
or use built-in vscode.open command to preivew referenced CSV & JSON data files for your Vega graphs 📈
Usage
Use Vega: Create Vega Spec command from View -> Command Pallette... menu
to Create & Save new Vega || Vega-Lite document with the corresponding Vega json $schema reference
Run Vega: Preview Vega Graph command on an open .vg.json || .vl.json Vega spec document to Preview 📈
Save updated Vega spec json document to Preview updated Graph 📈
Use Vega: Preview Remote Vega Graph command to preview URL encoded Vega specs from online
Vega Editor or github gists
Built-in Examples
Run Vega: Examples command to view the list of built-in Vega Examples
Run Vega: Lite Examples command to view all the Vega-Lite Maps 🗺 & Graphs 📈 created by the Vega dev community 🤗
Run Vega: Visual Vocabulary Examples command to View quick list of Visual Vocabulary Vega Examples
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Vega Viewer VSCode Contributions
Vega Viewer Commands
Vega Viewer GistPad Integration
Recommended Extensions
Other extensions Vega Viewer replaces, enhances or supplements for working with data and graphs 📈 in VSCode:
| Extension |
Description |
| Data Preivew 🈸 |
Data Preview 🈸 extension for importing 📤 viewing 🔎 slicing 🔪 dicing 🎲 charting 📊 & exporting 📥 large JSON array/config, YAML, Apache Arrow, Avro & Excel data files |
| GistPad 📘 |
VS Code extension for managing and sharing code snippets, notes and interactive samples using GitHub Gists |
| SVG Viewer |
SVG Viewer for Visual Studio Code |
| Geo Data Viewer 🗺️ |
Geo Data Viewer w/0 Py 🐍, pyWidgets ⚙️, pandas 🐼, or @reactjs ⚛️ required to gen. some snazzy maps 🗺️ with keplerGL ... |
Dev Log
See #VegaViewer 📈 tag on Twitter for the latest & greatest updates on this vscode extension & what's in store next.
Dev Build
$ git clone https://github.com/RandomFractals/vscode-vega-viewer
$ cd vscode-vega-viewer
$ npm install
$ code .
F5 to launch Vega Viewer extension VSCode debug session:
Contributions
Any & all test, code || feedback contributions are welcome.
Open an issue || create a pull request to make Vega Viewer 📈 work better for all. 🤗
