vis-network
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The vis-network npm package is a dynamic, browser-based visualization library that allows you to create, manipulate, and interact with network graphs. It is highly customizable and supports a wide range of features for visualizing complex networks.
Create a Basic Network
This code demonstrates how to create a basic network with nodes and edges using vis-network. The nodes and edges are defined using DataSet objects, and the network is rendered in a container element.
const vis = require('vis-network');
const nodes = new vis.DataSet([
{ id: 1, label: 'Node 1' },
{ id: 2, label: 'Node 2' },
{ id: 3, label: 'Node 3' },
{ id: 4, label: 'Node 4' },
{ id: 5, label: 'Node 5' }
]);
const edges = new vis.DataSet([
{ from: 1, to: 3 },
{ from: 1, to: 2 },
{ from: 2, to: 4 },
{ from: 2, to: 5 }
]);
const container = document.getElementById('mynetwork');
const data = { nodes: nodes, edges: edges };
const options = {};
const network = new vis.Network(container, data, options);Customize Node and Edge Styles
This code sample shows how to customize the styles of nodes and edges in a vis-network graph. Nodes can have different colors, shapes, and font sizes, while edges can have different colors and styles (e.g., dashed lines).
const vis = require('vis-network');
const nodes = new vis.DataSet([
{ id: 1, label: 'Node 1', color: '#ff0000' },
{ id: 2, label: 'Node 2', shape: 'box' },
{ id: 3, label: 'Node 3', font: { size: 20 } }
]);
const edges = new vis.DataSet([
{ from: 1, to: 2, color: '#00ff00' },
{ from: 2, to: 3, dashes: true }
]);
const container = document.getElementById('mynetwork');
const data = { nodes: nodes, edges: edges };
const options = {};
const network = new vis.Network(container, data, options);Add Interaction Events
This code demonstrates how to add interaction events to a vis-network graph. In this example, a click event is added to the network, which triggers an alert displaying the ID of the clicked node.
const vis = require('vis-network');
const nodes = new vis.DataSet([
{ id: 1, label: 'Node 1' },
{ id: 2, label: 'Node 2' }
]);
const edges = new vis.DataSet([
{ from: 1, to: 2 }
]);
const container = document.getElementById('mynetwork');
const data = { nodes: nodes, edges: edges };
const options = {};
const network = new vis.Network(container, data, options);
network.on('click', function (params) {
alert('Clicked node: ' + params.nodes);
});Cytoscape.js is a graph theory library for visualizing and analyzing graphs. It is highly customizable and supports a wide range of graph layouts and styles. Compared to vis-network, Cytoscape.js offers more advanced graph analysis features and a larger set of layout algorithms.
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Network is a visualization to display networks and networks consisting of nodes and edges. The visualization is easy to use and supports custom shapes, styles, colors, sizes, images, and more. The network visualization works smooth on any modern browser for up to a few thousand nodes and edges. To handle a larger amount of nodes, Network has clustering support. Network uses HTML canvas for rendering.
Install via npm:
$ npm install vis-network
A basic example on loading a Network is shown below. More examples can be found in the examples directory of the project.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Network</title>
<script
type="text/javascript"
src="https://unpkg.com/vis-network/standalone/umd/vis-network.min.js"
></script>
<style type="text/css">
#mynetwork {
width: 600px;
height: 400px;
border: 1px solid lightgray;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="mynetwork"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
// create an array with nodes
var nodes = new vis.DataSet([
{ id: 1, label: "Node 1" },
{ id: 2, label: "Node 2" },
{ id: 3, label: "Node 3" },
{ id: 4, label: "Node 4" },
{ id: 5, label: "Node 5" },
]);
// create an array with edges
var edges = new vis.DataSet([
{ from: 1, to: 3 },
{ from: 1, to: 2 },
{ from: 2, to: 4 },
{ from: 2, to: 5 },
{ from: 3, to: 3 },
]);
// create a network
var container = document.getElementById("mynetwork");
var data = {
nodes: nodes,
edges: edges,
};
var options = {};
var network = new vis.Network(container, data, options);
</script>
</body>
</html>
To build the library from source, clone the project from github
$ git clone git://github.com/visjs/vis-network.git
The source code uses the module style of node (require and module.exports) to
organize dependencies. To install all dependencies and build the library,
run npm install in the root of the project.
$ cd vis-network
$ npm install
Then, the project can be build running:
$ npm run build
To test the library, install the project dependencies once:
$ npm install
Then run the tests:
$ npm run test
Contributions to the vis.js library are very welcome! We can't do this alone!
Thank you to all our backers! 🙏
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Copyright (C) 2010-2018 Almende B.V. and Contributors Copyright (c) 2018-2021 Vis.js contributors
Vis.js is dual licensed under both
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FAQs
A dynamic, browser-based visualization library.
The npm package vis-network receives a total of 89,409 weekly downloads. As such, vis-network popularity was classified as popular.
We found that vis-network demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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