Graphviz Interactive Preview installs statistics
By tintinweb (7 listings) · VS Code Marketplace · Programming Languages
Graphviz (dot) Interactive Preview
Graphviz Interactive Preview has 551,579 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace, ranking #803 of 2,501 tracked listings.
Rating: 4.46 / 5 from 24 ratings
About Graphviz Interactive Preview
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Graphviz Interactive Preview (Visual Studio Code Extension)
A VSCode extension that provides syntax highlighting, snippets, and an interactive, zoom-, pan- and searchable, live preview with edge tracing for graphs in Graphviz / dot format.

Language Features
- Graphviz/Dot Language Support / Syntax Highlighting and Snippets (thanks @joaompinto)
- AutoCompletion
- Rename Symbols
- Find References of node IDs
- Color selection via Color decoration
- Hover information for settings
- Shows syntax errors (only available when the preview of the document is active)
Interactivity Features
- Renders dot/Graphviz sources in an interactive live preview.
- Updates preview as you type.
- Search for nodes in the graph.
- Export the graph as
svgordot. - Interactive edge tracing. Click on a node to highlight incoming and outgoing edges (
ESCto unselect). The Direction of the highlighting can be changed (options: single, upstream, downstream, bidirectional) - Configurable render engine, render options & tracing preference: e.g.
transitionDelay,transitionDuration.
<img width="576" alt="image" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/27259/161146471-6fb269df-5e3a-4f71-ab6e-37391b33c09c.png">
Other features
- Available on github.dev, vscode.dev
- Developers: you can pass a callback function that receives the webPanel when executing the preview command. This allows you to override functionality that is provided by the webPanel, like handlers for click/dblClick events.
How to preview
Open a Graphviz/Dot file in the active editor and use either of the following methods to render the preview:
- (a) open the command prompt (<kbd>cmd</kbd>+<kbd>shift</kbd>+<kbd>p</kbd>) and type
> graphviz preview - (b) click the <img width="35" alt="image" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2865694/155575822-720a76d0-68a8-481f-92b4-752d8c6e6242.png"> button in the editor title
- (c) from the editor window's context menu, select
Preview Graphviz / Dot (beside)
Render Examples
<a href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2865694/151163516-fbb956ab-607c-45dc-8c83-db3477ceccf9.png"><img width="250" alt="semantic-arg-dark" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2865694/151163516-fbb956ab-607c-45dc-8c83-db3477ceccf9.png" ></a> <a href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2865694/151163623-8714f717-a4ed-428c-bd87-213c8035892d.png"><img width="250" alt="semantic-arg-dark" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2865694/151163623-8714f717-a4ed-428c-bd87-213c8035892d.png" ></a> <a href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2865694/151163732-0a0113c6-7328-4345-b71a-7df782aa0387.png"><img width="250" alt="semantic-arg-dark" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2865694/151163732-0a0113c6-7328-4345-b71a-7df782aa0387.png" ></a> <a href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2865694/151163840-ceb6d75e-983d-4126-9169-6431d1dbfe1d.png"><img width="250" alt="semantic-arg-dark" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2865694/151163840-ceb6d75e-983d-4126-9169-6431d1dbfe1d.png" ></a>
Developer Notes
Note:❗v0.0.8 introduced a breaking change: the render command was renamed from interactive-graphviz.preview.beside to graphviz-interactive-preview.preview.beside
The extension can be set run on development machines with
npm run watch
In order to test the extension as a web extension you have to start
npm run open-in-browser
Interact with this extension
- add
graphviz-interactive-previewto yourpackage.jsonextension dependencies.
{
"name": "your-extension",
"extensionDependencies": ["tintinweb.graphviz-interactive-preview"],
}
```…
Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.
- dot
- graphviz
- Graphviz (DOT)
- interactive
- preview
- snippet
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Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tintinweb.graphviz-interactive-preview. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 20, 2026. See the methodology.