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The Vega editor is a web application for authoring and testing Vega and Vega-Lite visualizations. It includes a number of example specifications that showcase both the visual encodings and interaction techniques. It is deployed at https://vega.github.io/editor/.

We integrated a back-end service at https://vega-editor-backend.vercel.app/ which lets a user log in through GitHub so that they can access his/her personal gists. The code for the backend is at https://github.com/vega/editor-backend.

Editor is stuck

You can reset the Vega Editor by going to https://vega.github.io/editor/#/reset and clicking the reset button. This will reset the saved editor state.

Usage Instructions

Run Vega-Editor With Docker

sudo docker run -it --rm -p 1234:1234 node:21 bash -xc 'mkdir -p vega/editor && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/vega/editor.git vega/editor && cd vega/editor && yarn && yarn start'

Development Setup

We assume you have yarn, bash, curl, and tar installed.

Your working copy of this git repository must be located at least two levels below the system root /. E.g. /home/user/editor or /vega/editor, but not /editor.

Inside your working copy ...

  1. Install the dependencies:
    $ yarn

  2. Launch the local web server:
    $ yarn start

  3. The local web server will be accessible via http://localhost:1234.

Local Testing & Debugging

The editor is useful for testing if you are involved in Vega and Vega-Lite development. To use Vega, Vega-Lite, or Vega Datasets from another directory on your computer, you need to link it. For this, run yarn link in the directory of the library that you want to link. Then, in this directory run yarn link <name of library>, e.g. yarn link vega or yarn link vega-lite.

For example, to link Vega, run

cd VEGA_DIR
yarn link

cd VEGA_LITE_DIR
yarn link

cd VEGA_EDITOR_DIR
yarn link vega
yarn link vega-lite

The Vega editor supports React Developer Tools and Redux DevTools.

Building preview images

Build images with yarn generate-example-images.

Contributing guidelines

We welcome contributions and promptly review pull requests. For instructions about how to contribute, please follow the Vega-Lite contributing guidelines.

Creating a release on gh-pages

Run the publish action at https://github.com/vega/editor/actions/workflows/publish.yml.

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