SandDance development

The SandDance repo is a monorepo made up of several packages, managed by npm workspaces. SandDance is a component stack with the layer hierarchy below:

Deck.gl - WebGL rendering and canvas control.
Vega - chart layout.
sanddance-specs - Vega specifications for unit visualizations.
sanddance - unit visualization chart views and selecting / filtering interaction.
sanddance-test-umd - test of sanddance in UMD deployment.
sanddance-test-es6 - test of sanddance in es6 deployment.
sanddance-react - (optional) React wrapper for sanddance.
sanddance-explorer - React-based data exploration component.
sanddance-app - React-based sample application used on website.

System requirements

Node.js 16 or higher
NPM 8 or higher

Install

Clone this repo
npm install
Install Jekyll to run the website locally.

Build

npm run build

Run

Depending on which component you'd like to see, you can run in various ways.

Run website

npm run deploy
cd docs
jekyll serve
Visit https://127.0.0.1:4000/SandDance/
For tests, visit https://127.0.0.1:4000/SandDance/tests

Run sanddance-app with watchers

npm start
Visit https://127.0.0.1:8085/

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