Visualize data coming from an API in a CMS-like app. If your data is stored somewhere and accessible via an API, ApiViz can transform it into a full website to show it at its best.
ApiViz includes "out-the-box" a back-office to fully configure an original datavisualisation website :
- navbar : define the logo, links, and menus in your apiviz instance's navabr.
- styles : define the CSS styles for your apiviz instance.
- routes : define the pages and routes of your apiviz instance, either statics contents or data views.
- data endpoints : define the data endpoints feeding your apiviz instance and the fields you want to display.
- global : define some metadata for your apiviz instance.
- footer : define the links present in the apiviz instance's footer.
Check our brand new documentation website here :
https://co-demos.github.io/apiviz-backend/
apiviz-backend is the backend of the APIVIZ-FRONTEND application, it provides the API for serving its configuration to any apiviz-frontend instance.
ApiViz is designed to agnosticaly display data and provide an engine to deploy a datavisualisation website without (too much) pain, not regarding to the service(s) serving and storing the data.
Nevertheless to do so an instance of ApiViz must be connected to several external services : one for authentication, one for serving the data, one for storing the static contents (html pages, images...).
The goal of ApiViz is to work with any external service fulfilling those roles, but we developed an eco-system of open source applications allowing a complete and free way to deploy such a datavisualisation service.
| logo | the open source eco-system ( aka TADATA! ) |
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Apiviz as the high-level app for visualisation, a sort of open source CMS for data-visualisation ; |
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Solidata to "API-fy" your data and manage open data projects ; |
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TokTok for a dedicated authentication service to manage users, JWT, and roles. |
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OpenScraper is a generic web scraper serving the results of the scraping via its API |
In the following illustration you can have a general idea of how those several services could work altogether. Check the /documentation/configurations folder to have a broader look to other configurations.
You can also check those several projects and repository to find some layout for your specific new datavisualisation website :
- Sonum repo ;
- CIS repo ;
- ... and more to come...
Note : all the schemas were realized with VUE - Visual Understanding Environment, an open source mind mapping tool. The source file for the schemas is here
serves your apiviz-backend configuration
