Exploring components

React-based Looker components allow you to seamlessly blend Looker’s design and functionality into your custom data applications and extensions. You can use Looker’s pre-made React components for forms, buttons, charts, tables, and more. It’s like a box of Looker building blocks.

You can use the components with both the Looker extension framework and Looker’s Embed SDK.

Looker’s visualization components, for example, are another way of embedding Looker content into the application.

Getting ready

This section will focus on the general steps applicable to the components’ usage. While specific instructions won’t be provided here, following these generic steps will equip you with a solid understanding of the process. By the end of this section, you’ll find useful links to detailed documentation to work with Looker components.

The following are the key concepts involved in working with Looker components...