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Data Model Viewer

Data Surfaces

Which tables are there, and how do they hang together?

An entity-relationship view of a database on the flow canvas: custom table nodes with a row per column (keys, nullability, personal data), foreign keys as custom edges with crow’s-foot end marks that meet each table at the right row, a table list by schema with search and visibility, an all-columns / keys-only / names-only switch, auto-layout, and an inspector with columns, followable relations, indexes and a readable CREATE TABLE. Renders a plain DataModel object.

npx shadcn@latest add https://elabs-ai.com/r/data-model-viewer-01.json

Skipping the @source line is the most common first failure: Tailwind does not scan node_modules, so every component renders unstyled. The one-time wiring

Prompt for your coding agent

Paste it into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any other coding agent. Text in [brackets] is yours to fill in.

Add the brand-ui registry block "Data Model Viewer" (data-model-viewer-01) to this project. A block is copied into the app and becomes my code.

1. Read https://elabs-ai.com/llms.txt first: it maps every package and the rules. If you can use MCP servers, connect https://elabs-ai.com/mcp and use its search, docs and tokens tools. If not, run the same lookups in the terminal: `npx -y @elabs-ai/components-cli search "<what you need>"` and `npx -y @elabs-ai/components-cli docs <Component>`.
2. Find it and what it is built from: `npx -y @elabs-ai/components-cli search data-model-viewer-01`.
3. Make sure the base is in place: `pnpm add @elabs-ai/components-tokens @elabs-ai/components-ui` (or `npm install @elabs-ai/components-tokens @elabs-ai/components-ui`), plus the packages the block imports. If this is the first brand-ui package in the project, wire it once: import `@elabs-ai/components-tokens/styles.css` plus the `themes/light.css` and `themes/dark.css` stylesheets in the CSS entry, add one Tailwind `@source` line per installed @elabs-ai package (Tailwind does not scan node_modules, so without it everything renders unstyled), and wrap the app root in `ThemeProvider` from `@elabs-ai/components-tokens`.
4. Copy the block in with `npx shadcn@latest add https://elabs-ai.com/r/data-model-viewer-01.json`; if that url does not answer, copy its files from https://github.com/mreimitz/elabs-components/tree/main/registry/blocks/data-model-viewer-01 instead. Then adapt it here: [the screen or file, and the real data it should show]
5. Rules: use only @elabs-ai/components-* components and the semantic tokens — no raw colours, no raw font sizes, no arbitrary Tailwind values. Look up each component's real props with the docs tool before you use it; never guess a prop.
6. Done means: the typecheck passes, `npx -y @elabs-ai/components-cli audit src --strict` reports nothing, and you have opened the app and looked at every screen you touched in the light and the dark theme.

Dependencies

  • @elabs-ai/components-data
  • @elabs-ai/components-flow
  • @elabs-ai/components-icons
  • @elabs-ai/components-tokens
  • @elabs-ai/components-ui
  • @xyflow/react
  • lucide-react

Examples

6 live examples

Table In Focus

A table in focus: its neighbours stay lit, everything else steps back, and the inspector opens on it.

Keys Only

Keys only — the shape of the model without the payload columns.

Names Only

Names only — the overview for a model too large to read column by column.

Star Schema

A star schema with hand-placed positions: the fact in the middle, its dimensions around it.

Follow A Relation

Following a relation: pick a table in the list, open its relations, and jump to the table on the other end.