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lightdash: Fast, Code‑Driven BI for Data‑Driven Founders

Turn dbt models into interactive dashboards instantly, letting founders visualize metrics without leaving their codebase. Backed by 6.2k+ GitHub stars.
6,179 stars+9★ this week792 forksTypeScriptGuide quality 9/10 · reviewed Oct 8Updated 10/9/2026100% free · open source
What it does

Lightdash provides instant insights and agile business intelligence for startup founders, allowing them to make data-driven decisions quickly

When to use it
  • •When you need to analyze data from multiple sources in a unified way
  • •When you want to create custom dashboards and visualizations without extensive coding
  • •When you require real-time analytics and alerts to inform business decisions
Ready-to-paste prompt
Create a new metric using the Lightdash CLI: `npx lightdash model create --name='user_count' --description='Number of active users'`
Heads up: Make sure you have the correct version of Node.js installed, as Lightdash requires Node 16 or higher to run, and the Lightdash CLI may not work correctly with older versions
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mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/lightdash && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/lightdash/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/lightdash/SKILL.md
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How lightdash: Fast, Code‑Driven BI for Data‑Driven Founders works
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Lightdash: Fast, Code‑Driven BI for Data‑Driven Founders is a very large TypeScript project (~1.6M lines across 7357 code files, plus 150 test files). You install it into your AI tool with one command; there is nothing to run yourself. Last commit this month, Other license, has a test suite.

Size
Very large codebase
~1.6M lines · 7357 code files · days to read — use, don't read
Setup
Install as a skill / plugin
Add it to Claude Code (or your AI tool) with one command — 29 skills inside. Nothing to run yourself.
Runs on
Inside your AI tool
Helper scripts use Node.js · Docker
TypeScript 96%HTML 2%CSS 1%
Where to start reading
  1. 1
    README.md
    Start here — what it does and how to install it
  2. 2
    AGENTS.md
    The instructions the AI actually follows
  3. 3
    skills/developing-in-lightdash/SKILL.md
    Inside skills/ — an example of what the AI is told to do
  4. 4
    examples/api/README.md
    A worked example — copy this to get going
What's in each folder
skills/Prompts, skills & agent definitions32 files
packages/frontend/Frontend / UI4080 files
packages/backend/Backend / API2766 files
packages/cli/Command-line entry points192 files
plugins/Sub-packages / plugins8 files
examples/Examples you can copy275 files
docs/Documentation80 files
packages/common/Package759 files
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Creator
lightdash
Language
TypeScript
Category
analytics
Published
3/19/2021

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