vega-preview README

vega-preview provides a preview windows for a vega and vega-lite json files.

The source code of this extension is available at: https://github.com/8/vega-preview

The extension is very much inspired by the great graphviz-preview extension!

Features

Preview for Vega Files

Live-Preview for Vega json files using the command vega-preview.showVegaPreview.

Preview for Vega-Lite Files

Live-Preview for Vega-Lite json files using the command vega-preview.showVegaLitePreview.

Export to Svg

Export Vega and Vega-Lite json files to svg using the commands vega-preview.exportVegaToSvg and vega-preview.exportVegaLiteToSvg respectively.

Requirements

Visual Studio Code 1.24.0+

Known Issues

• Loading External Data is only supported using relative paths (No absolute paths or URIs!)
• The preview is a static Svg, no interactions are currently supported

Release Notes

0.9.0

Initial Release

0.9.1

To keep the image from disappearing while it is being edited, the last valid state of a json spec is cached and displayed for each document.