novem - datavisualisation in your editor

novem is a datavisualisation platform for coders – create charts, documents, emails and reports right from your code. With novem for VS Code you can browse, edit and preview your novem visuals from your editor.

Editing a novem e-mail in VS Code: the novem bar lists plots, e-mails and other resources, the content file is open with nv_markdown highlighting, and a live preview of the rendered mail is shown alongside

Installation

Install through VS Code extensions. Search for novem

Visual Studio Code Market Place: novem

Can also be installed in VS Code: Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.

ext install novem.novem-vscode

Getting started

You'll need a valid novem account. To sign in, open the novem bar in the activity bar and click "Sign in to Novem", or run novem: Login from the command palette. The login itself happens in your browser.

If you already use the novem CLI or one of the novem libraries, the extension reads the same configuration and no separate sign-in is needed.

Profiles

The novem configuration can hold several profiles, for example for separate accounts or environments:

novem: Login New Profile signs in with another account and saves it as a new profile
novem: Select Profile switches the active profile
novem: Edit Config File opens the configuration file for manual editing

These commands are available from the command palette and from the ⋯ menu on the novem views.

Working with your visuals

The novem bar lists the resources on your account, grouped into plots, e-mails, grids, documents, jobs and repos.

Each view has a + button for creating new resources, and the right-click menu lets you view, edit, rename and delete existing ones. Some resource types have additional actions:

E-mails can be tested and sent. Test delivers the mail to your own address; Send shows a summary of the to/cc/bcc lists and asks for confirmation first.
Jobs can be run.
Repos can be cloned to your machine.

Editing and previews

Expanding a resource in the tree shows its files. These are read from the novem API and written back when you save; there is no local copy.

View opens a preview of a plot, e-mail, grid or document in an editor tab.

Content files (e-mail and document content, grid layouts and mappings) are highlighted as nv_markdown, a markdown variant with novem extensions. The same highlighting applies to local .nvm and .nvmd files.