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Hi Amit!

I came across your project recently and really liked the fact that you're using yamls for vega specs instead of json. That's much better for us humans indeed!

After some further browsing, I discovered that an atom/vscode plugin called markdown-preview-ehnacend also supports vega and vega-lite inside markdown, both as json and yaml: https://shd101wyy.github.io/markdown-preview-enhanced/#/diagrams?id=vega-and-vega-lite

The functionality is taken from an upstream library called mume, which is a rather standard nodejs package. See vega.ts and vega-lite.ts there.

I'm not involved in those projects, just walking past thinking that the world can become an even better place if you join forces :–) Thanks for what you've already done and good luck in future!

Thanks @kachkaev for pointing to the markdown enhanced preview. That does cover vega-lite in yaml and much more! Will try it out and give it a spin.

Visdown is currently in the browser, so that people who are not coders can also use it to create interactive data driven documents. Still some way to go before it becomes really useful... but it is start.

Thanks for your kind words.