Flat Viewer
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Flat Viewer is a tool to view un-nested data (CSV & JSON files) in an interactive table. The table has various affordances for exploring the data, such as:
- filtering
- sorting
- sticky header and column
- diffs for specific commits that change the data
What is Flat Data?
Flat Viewer is part of a larger project to make it easy to fetch and commit data into GitHub repositories. The action is intended to be run on a schedule, retrieving data from any supported target and creating a commit if there is any change to the fetched data. Flat Data builds on the βgit scrapingβ approach pioneered by Simon Willison to offer a simple pattern for bringing working datasets into your repositories and versioning them, because developing against local datasets is faster and easier than working with data over the wire.
Usage
To use Flat Viewer, prepend flat
to the URL of your GitHub repo:
from: github.com/githubocto/flat-demo-covid-dashboard
to: flatgithub.com/githubocto/flat-demo-covid-dashboard
Development
To run locally:
yarn # to install dependencies
yarn dev
Deployment
flatgithub.com will automatically re-build and deploy when changes are pushed to the main
branch.
Issues
If you run into any trouble or have questions, feel free to open an issue.