dev-docs

Developer documentation

The developer documentation here is meant for usage by the internal development team, external contributors, and plugin developers.

Also see LLM-generated documentation at DeepWiki.

Documentation for plugin developers

• View type implementation
• File type implementation

Documentation for internal developers

Architecture

The diagram below highlights how Vitessce is composed of a top-level <Vitessce/> React component which encapsulates several individual visualization or control views such as <Scatterplot/> and <Spatial/>.

Table of contents

• Design guidelines
• Monorepo and bundling
• Config schema versioning

Note about developer documentation contents

Here, we not only want to document implementation details, but also higher-level architectural details and development processes. However, documentation that would be relevant to a wider audience should instead be included in the main documentation website that is hosted at http://vitessce.io.