Plotit

This project is maintained on gitlab.

Overview

Plotit allows live visualization of multiple time series read from terminal.

Plotit consumes standard input formatted as CSV and will build a trace for each field. Plotit open a new tab in your browser in which a plotly graph is continuously updated.

This is experimental software. It was made as an experiment to build a standalone wasm client and web server communicating through websocket, both fully written in Rust.

The port 9001 is used internally for the websocket and the port 8000 is used for the rocket server. These ports cannot be changed at this time.

Prerequisites

This project depends on Rust nightly. You can install the nightly toolchain and override your Rust toolchain for this project by running the following commands while inside this repository.

rustup toolchain install nightly
rustup override set nightly

Building client requires cargo web and wasm target. You can install it with the following commands.

rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown
cargo install cargo-web

Quickstart

You can download prebuilt binaries at this address. Decompress the archive and run the following command.

./noise | ./plotit

A new tab should display live plotting of sine waves. Go take a look at your browser !

The noise binary is an example program which continuously output sine waves samples to standard output.

0.7173560908995227, 0.6967067093471655
0.7833269096274833, 0.6216099682706645
0.8414709848078964, 0.5403023058681398
0.8912073600614353, 0.4535961214255775
0.9320390859672263, 0.3623577544766736
0.963558185417193, 0.26749882862458735

Build

This repository comes with a Makefile allowing to build and run Plotit easily.
Type make build to compile Plotit.

Usage

my_program | plotit

Go to your browser at localhost:8000.