This project builds Graphviz with Emscripten and provides a simple wrapper for using it in the browser.
For more information, see the wiki.
Have a look at Dagre, which is not a hack.
viz.js package from npm.To build from source, first install the Emscripten SDK. You'll also need Node.js and Yarn.
Install the development dependencies using Yarn:
yarn install
The build process for Viz.js is split into two parts: building the Graphviz and Expat dependencies, and building the rendering script files and API.
make deps
make all
The browser tests can be run locally using Selenium WebDriver.
First, serve the project directory at http://localhost:8000.
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Then, run tests using test-browser/runner.js. For example, to run test-browser/full.html in Chrome:
node test-browser/runner --file full.html --browser chrome
FAQs
A hack to put Graphviz on the web.
The npm package viz.js receives a total of 48,207 weekly downloads. As such, viz.js popularity was classified as popular.
We found that viz.js demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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