At Cube, we deeply care about the experience that data professionals have when building and maintaining semantic layers. Earlier this year, we launched Playground 2.0 in Cube Cloud and promised to bring it to Cube Core as well so that everyone in the Cube community can benefit from using it.
Today, we're happy to announce that Playground 2.0 has been released in Cube Core. Starting from v0.36, you can now use Playground 2.0 to build and validate your data model by executing queries and previewing their results in a BI-like interface. You can view the data model entities or search for them, compose a query from scratch or paste an existing query, view results, check a generated query, or copy equivalent queries for data APIs.
Moreover, we're also releasing Chart Prototyping in Cube Core as well. Previously available only in Cube Cloud, Chart Prototyping can help you go from zero to a minimal yet complete front-end application that queries Cube via its REST API and visualizes data on charts. You can generate the code in an instant and then download it to customize on your machine.
What has changed
Now, when you start Cube Core in the development mode, just like you would expect, Playground 2.0 will be available at http://localhost:4000. The previous version of Playground has been removed from the Cube Core distribution.
Here's how Playground 2.0 and Chart Prototyping work:
As a friendly reminder, we'd like to point out that Playground is designed to help you build and validate data models. If you'd like to provide your end-users with a BI experience, it is recommended to connect one of many supported data visualization tools to Cube.
What's next?
Playground 2.0 and Chart Prototyping are available in Cube Core starting from v0.36. When upgrading to this version, please make sure to check the release notes for breaking changes and deprecations.
Later, we will also publish the React components used in Playground 2.0 so that you can use them to build similar applications.
The documentation has been updated. Please feel free to check out the pages for Playground and Chart Prototyping to familiarize yourself with the new interface and features.
Once you've given the new Playground and Chart Prototyping a try, please share your feedback in the Slack community. We'd like to learn more about your experience and how we can further improve it.