WIP: Markdown template visualization

[arikfr]

What type of PR is this? (check all applicable)

• Feature

Description

Following @DALDEI's suggestion in the forum, decided to take a stab at implementing a markdown/mustache template visualization.

This is the first 100% React visualization. :)

Mobile & Desktop Screenshots/Recordings (if there are UI changes)

[arikfr]

To make this really useful, we should probably switch the markdown parser into one that supports HTML or at least tables (#3170).

[DALDEI]

Not as a suggestion but more as a comparison , I ran into this feature of AWS's "QuickSight" (a similar product in concept to Redash) In the "Insights" module QuickSight can create text 'stories' describing the visualization. Under the hood this looks like a sort of templating language like mustache, havent poked deep enough to be sure.

Heres's an example screenshot:

This then turns into the following at runtime

This is definitely a very different feature concept, but IMHOP does validate that using a text templating engine for visualizations is a viable approach.

[itssimon]

This looks really promising. Is finalising this on the roadmap?

[arikfr]

@itssimon one day, yes 😬 Unfortunately other tasks prevent me from finishing this. If anyone wants to pick up where I left it, they are welcome.