Company
Date Published
Author
Kapehe
Word count
630
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Graph View is a new feature developed during an internal hackathon at Sanity, designed to provide a visual representation of datasets by displaying documents as nodes and their references as vertices, thus helping users better understand data connections. Created by a team including Alexander Staubo and Bryan Robinson, it uses a JavaScript library called react-force-graph to implement the visualization on a browser's 2D canvas. This tool updates in real-time, capturing edits and additions, and includes a Presence feature that shows team members' avatars, indicating who is currently editing a document. By highlighting patterns such as isolated data clusters and key documents, Graph View aids in identifying potential improvements in data organization. The plugin can be integrated into Sanity Studio by running a simple command, enhancing collaborative data management and visualization.