Visualization infrastructure for web applications

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code for a web application, the computer readable program code comprising instructions for:

• receiving, from an image command in the web application, a request to render a visualization, wherein the request is based on a unified rendering application programming interface that is supported by both a client computing system and a server computing system, the client computing system executing the web application;
• selecting, based on a predetermined rendering criterion, at least one rendering system selected from a group consisting of the client computing system and the server computing system, the client computing system and the server computing system both comprising a rendering engine;
• receiving a first rendered visualization from the rendering engine executing on the at least one rendering system;
• and
• displaying the first rendered visualization.

A computing system comprising:

• a processor;
• a memory for storing a rendering library, the rendering library comprising:
• a server rendering library comprising instructions for:
• receiving, from a web application executing on a client computing system, a request to render a visualization,
• rendering a plurality of selected image definitions into a visualization, and
• sending the visualization to the client computing system,
• a client rendering library comprising instructions for:
• receiving, from the web application executing on a client computing system, a request to render the visualization,
• rendering the plurality of selected image definitions into the visualization, and
• presenting the image on the client computing system;
• a unified rendering application programming interface comprising a plurality of call definitions to a plurality of library functions, each of the plurality of library functions in both the server rendering library and the client rendering library, wherein the plurality of call definitions are the same for using the server rendering library and the client rendering library.