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A Flutter widget to embed vega-lite charts to flutter web. Works only in Flutter web as of now. This could be adapted to be used with flutter webview widget.

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Examples from the Repo #

This is an example flutter web app which renders multiple vega-lite specs in one page using column and row arrangements.

Running the flutter web example from the repo. #

This example can be run by changing into the example folder and running for web using the following commands.

$> git clone https://github.com/Abhilash-Chandran/vega_embed_flutter.git
$> cd vega_embed_flutter/example
$> flutter run -d chrome

Running the flutter webview example from the repo. #

This example can be run by changing into the example folder and running for web using the following commands.

$> git clone https://github.com/Abhilash-Chandran/vega_embed_flutter.git
$> cd vega_embed_flutter/example
$> flutter run -t lib\webview_main.dart

This will run the availale example and open a browser with the predefined charts embeded using VegaLiteEmbedder widget.

Result of repo example for flutter web. #

The example from the repo showcase multiple charts being laid out in a single page with different default theming options provided by the vega-embed project. It additionally shows the embed options demo page. A live version of this page can be found here. https://abhilash-chandran.github.io/vega_embed_flutter/#/

Repo example output

Result of repo example for flutter web view. #

Repo web view example output

Getting started with your own chart #

This instructions assumes user has enable flutter-web config essential for flutter web development. If not please check this get-started page.

  1. Create directory for your project say 'vega_embed_test'
  2. Create a flutter-web project using flutter create . command.
  3. Edit your pubspec.yaml file to install the vega_embed_flutter package.
    • e.g. add vega_embed_flutter: ^0.1.0 to the dependecies

Start by adding the script tag for vega related java script files. For example.

Index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vega@5"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vega-lite@4"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vega-embed@6"></script>
    <title>vega_flutter</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <script src="main.dart.js" type="application/javascript"></script>
  </body>
</html>

Creating vega-lite spec json file #

For example here we can create bar-chart.vl.json file under the directory vega_lite_specs as shown below.

 $Project_root\vega_lite_specs
                  |_>  bar-charts.vl.json
                  |_>  another-chart.vl.json

Add contents to bar-charts.vl.json #

Following is a simple bar chart with embeded data.

{
  "$schema": "https://vega.github.io/schema/vega-lite/v4.json",
  "description": "A simple bar chart with embedded data.",
  "width": 500,
  "data": {
    "values": [
      { "a": "A", "b": 28 },
      { "a": "B", "b": 55 },
      { "a": "C", "b": 43 },
      { "a": "D", "b": 91 },
      { "a": "E", "b": 81 },
      { "a": "F", "b": 53 },
      { "a": "G", "b": 19 },
      { "a": "H", "b": 87 },
      { "a": "I", "b": 52 }
    ]
  },
  "mark": "bar",
  "encoding": {
    "x": { "field": "a", "type": "ordinal" },
    "y": { "field": "b", "type": "quantitative" }
  }
}

Ther are extension in VS-Code for visualizing the vega-lite specs in VS code itself. Also additional online editors are availblable for this. Check this vega-lite ecosystem page. This can act as a quick prototype before rendering it as a flutter widget.

Add the assets in pubspec.yaml #

In order to access the above created json as an asset, it must added to the pubspec.yaml as folows.

flutter:
  assets:
    - vega_lite_specs/ # Note: adds all the specs in this directory but not folders.
    - vega_lite_specs/other_vega_lite_specs/
    - other_image_assets/
    - miscelaneous_js/custom.js

Use the VegaLiteEmbedder widget #

Create a stateless/ful widget and use the VegaLitEmbder widget as shown below. // Note that assets are to be accessed from "/assets" folder. Vega-embed resolves this json as a relative URL say 'http://domain:port/mycustompage/assets/vega_lite_specs/bar_chart.json'.

Also the viewFactoryId attribute should be unique across multiple VegaLiteEmbedder widget. This is a requirement from HTMLElementView widget which is internally used by this embedder widget.

import 'package:vega_embed_flutter/vega_embed_flutter.dart';

/// A simple bar chart with inline data.
class BarChart extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return VegaLiteEmbedder(
      viewFactoryId: 'MyBarChart',
      vegaLiteSpecLocation: '/assets/vega_lite_specs/bar_chart.json',
    );
  }
}

Edit you main.dart #

In your main.dart file include this new BarChart widget as part of other widgets. Thats it. Then run your application flutter run -d web.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:vega_embed_flutter/vega_embed_flutter.dart';

void main() => runApp(MyApp());

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      title: 'Flutter Vega=embed demo',
      theme: ThemeData(
        primarySwatch: Colors.blue,
      ),
      home: MyPage(),
    );
  }
}

class MyPage extends StatelessWidget {
  const MyPage({
    Key key,
  }) : super(key: key);

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return BarChart();
  }
}

class BarChart extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return VegaLiteEmbedder(
      viewFactoryId: 'MyBarChart',
      vegaLiteSpecLocation: '/assets/vega_lite_specs/bar_chart.json',
    );
  }
}

example output #

When you run this project you should get an ouput like this.

Example output

Theming #

Vega-embed comes with some basic set of default themes which can be used like for example 'dark', 'ggplot2' etc. A full set of predefined themes can be found here Vage-Themes.

VegaLiteEmbedder widget comes with an option where you can enable this themes. for example following bar chart renders in dark mode.

import 'package:vega_embed_flutter/vega_embed_flutter.dart';

/// A simple bar chart with dark theme.
class BarChart extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return VegaLiteEmbedder(
      viewFactoryId: 'MyBarChart',
      vegaLiteSpecLocation: '/assets/vega_lite_specs/bar_chart.json',
      vegaOptions: VegaEmbedOptions(theme: 'dark'),
    );
  }
}

Here is how the output looks like

demo_dark_bar chart

Using Vega Embed in a normal flutter app. #

For using the same spec files in a normal flutter app we can webview. In order to utilize this All the steps mentioned above except the ones about importing index.html can be ignored.

Replace the import statement and Instead of VegaLitEmbedder widget use the VegaLiteWebViewEmbedder widget as shown below.

import 'package:vega_embed_flutter/vega_embed_webview.dart';


/// A simple bar chart with dark theme.
class BarChart extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return VegaLiteWebViewEmbedder(
      viewFactoryId: 'MyBarChart',
      vegaLiteSpecLocation: '/assets/vega_lite_specs/bar_chart.json',
      vegaOptions: VegaEmbedOptions(theme: 'dark'),
    );
  }
}

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A Flutter widget to embed vega-lite charts to flutter web. Works only in Flutter web as of now. This could be adapted to be used with flutter webview widget.

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