marked-vega

<marked-element>
  <marked-vega slot="markdown-html"></marked-vega>
  <script type="text/markdown" src="https://rawgit.com/PolymerVis/marked-vega/master/demo/readme.md"></script>
</marked-element>

marked-vega is an add-on element for marked-element to render Vega and Vega-Lite charts in markdown documents with vega-element.

More API documentation and demos can be found on the web components page for marked-vega.

Disclaimer

PolymerVis is a personal project and is NOT in any way affliated with Vega, Vega-Lite, Polymer or Google.

Installation

bower install --save PolymerVis/marked-vega

Markdown Syntax

marked-vega introduces a few new markdown syntax.

1. Image markdown

Syntax

![vg|vega|vega-lite|vl](https://someurl/spec.json)

Example

![vega](barchart-vg.json)

2. Code markdown

Syntax

```vg|vega|vega-lite|vl
<Vega/Vega-Lite JSON specification>
or
<Vega/Vega-Lite JSON specification in YAML format>
```

Example - JSON specification

```vega-lite
{
  "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"}
  }
}
```

Example - YAML specification

```vega-lite
data:
  values:
    - x: A
      y: 13
    - x: B
      y: 55
    - x: C
      y: 43
    - x: D
      y: 91      
    - x: E
      y: 81      
    - x: F
      y: 53      
    - x: G
      y: 19      
    - x: H
      y: 87      
    - x: I
      y: 52      
mark:
  bar
encoding:
  x:
    field: x
    type: ordinal
  y:
    field: y
    type: quantitative
```

Basic usage

marked-vega enable parsing and rendering of Vega/Vega-Lite charts by updating the renderer attribute of the parent marked-element and adding a few new rules to the marked markdown parser and compiler.

The easiest way to use marked-vega is to replace it as the default slot element when using marked-element.

Before

<marked-element>
  <div slot="markdown-html"></div>
  <script type="text/markdown" src="../guidelines.md"></script>
</marked-element>

After

<marked-element>
  <marked-vega slot="markdown-html"></marked-vega>
  <script type="text/markdown" src="demo/demo.md"></script>
</marked-element>

Please look at the the webcomponents page for marked-element for other ways of using marked-element.

Custom renderer

Alternatively if you wish to use to further customize the renderer for marked-element, you can used the provided renderers:

• PolymerVis.marked.CodeRendererVega modifies the rules for the code markdown
• PolymerVis.marked.ImageRendererVega modifies the rules for the image markdown
• PolymerVis.marked.RendererVega modifies the rules for the code and image markdown

Each renderer is a function of the form function(renderer) { ... return renderer; }.

Example

this.customRenderer = function(renderer) {
  // other customized renderer codes
  ...
  // return vega renderer codes
  return PolymerVis.marked.RendererVega(renderer);
};

<marked-element renderer="[[customRenderer]]">
  <marked-vega slot="markdown-html"></marked-vega>
  <script type="text/markdown" src="demo/demo.md"></script>
</marked-element>