Recline combines a data grid, Google Refine-style data transforms and visualizations all in lightweight javascript and html.

Designed for standalone use or as a library to integrate into your own app.

Main Features

• Open-source (and heavy reuser of existing open-source libraries like Backbone)
• Pure javascript (no Flash) and designed for integration -- so it is easy to embed in other sites and applications
• View and edit your data in a clean grid interface
• Bulk update/clean your data using an easy scripting UI
• Easily extensible with new Backends so you can connect to your database or storage layer
• Visualize data

Demo

• Demo with local data

Docs

Want to see how to embed this in your own application. Check out the the Demo and view source.

• Model and Backends
• Views including the main Data Explorer

History

Max Ogden was developing Recline as the frontend data browser and editor his http://datacouch.com/ project. Meanwhile, Rufus Pollock and the CKAN team at the Open Knowledge Foundation had been working on a Data Explorer for use in the DataHub and CKAN software.

When they met up, they realized that they were pretty much working on the same thing and so decided to join forces to produce the new Recline Data Explorer.

The new project forked off Max's original recline codebase combining some portions of the original Data Explorer. However, it was rapidly rewritten from the ground up using Backbone.