Graphin

Graphin is an open-source graph visualization library for building interactive network visualizations in web applications. It is part of the AntV visualization suite and is designed to simplify the creation of graphs by providing higher-level APIs that wrap around the low-level rendering engine G6.

The library emphasizes React integration, offering components and patterns to render nodes and edges, bind data, and respond to user interactions. Graphin supports a range of layouts (including force-directed, hierarchical, and circular layouts) and allows customization of node and edge appearance through styles and custom shapes. It leverages G6's rendering pipeline for performance and extensibility and can handle graphs with thousands of elements.

In typical use, developers supply a graph data model consisting of nodes and edges, configure a layout and styling, and render it within a React application via a Graphin component. The API supports event handling, interactions such as drag, zoom, hover, and click, and dynamic updates to data and layout.

Graphin is maintained by the AntV project and has an ecosystem of plugins and examples to help users build tailored visualizations for domains such as social networks, knowledge graphs, and process mining. It is distributed as open-source software and commonly appears in documentation and tutorials related to web-based graph visualization.

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