A concise grammar of interactive graphics, built on Vega.
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Sep 10, 2026
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Vega-Lite provides a higher-level grammar for visual analysis that generates complete Vega specifications.
You can find more details, documentation, examples, usage instructions, and tutorials on the Vega-Lite website.
Try using Vega-Lite in the online Vega Editor.
Contributions are also welcome. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution and development guidelines and our Code of Conduct.
Read about future plans in our roadmap.
The development of Vega-Lite is led by the alumni and members of the University of Washington Interactive Data Lab (UW IDL), including Kanit "Ham" Wongsuphasawat (now at Databricks), Dominik Moritz (now at CMU / Apple), Arvind Satyanarayan (now at MIT), and Jeffrey Heer (UW IDL).
Vega-Lite gets significant contributions from its community. Please see the contributors page for the full list of contributors.
@article{2017-vega-lite,
doi = {10.1109/tvcg.2016.2599030},
year = {2017},
author = {Arvind Satyanarayan and Dominik Moritz and Kanit Wongsuphasawat and Jeffrey Heer},
title = {Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics},
journal = {{IEEE} Transactions on Visualization \& Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis)},
url = {http://idl.cs.washington.edu/papers/vega-lite},
}
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A concise grammar of interactive graphics, built on Vega.
5,483
stars
10,410
commits
TypeScript
primary language
Sep 10, 2026
updated

Vega-Lite provides a higher-level grammar for visual analysis that generates complete Vega specifications.
You can find more details, documentation, examples, usage instructions, and tutorials on the Vega-Lite website.
Try using Vega-Lite in the online Vega Editor.
Contributions are also welcome. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution and development guidelines and our Code of Conduct.
Read about future plans in our roadmap.
The development of Vega-Lite is led by the alumni and members of the University of Washington Interactive Data Lab (UW IDL), including Kanit "Ham" Wongsuphasawat (now at Databricks), Dominik Moritz (now at CMU / Apple), Arvind Satyanarayan (now at MIT), and Jeffrey Heer (UW IDL).
Vega-Lite gets significant contributions from its community. Please see the contributors page for the full list of contributors.
@article{2017-vega-lite,
doi = {10.1109/tvcg.2016.2599030},
year = {2017},
author = {Arvind Satyanarayan and Dominik Moritz and Kanit Wongsuphasawat and Jeffrey Heer},
title = {Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics},
journal = {{IEEE} Transactions on Visualization \& Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis)},
url = {http://idl.cs.washington.edu/papers/vega-lite},
}
(top 30 of 205)
4,365 commits
3,468 commits
1,055 commits
456 commits
TypeScript
97.6%