displacy.js for NER

[ch-sander]

spaCy/website/docs/usage/visualizers.mdx

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[`displaCy.js`](https://github.com/explosion/displacy) to render the

I might fail to see where but displacy.js doesn't seem to render the NER tags but only dependency arcs.

[svlandeg]

Hi!

Can you explain a bit more what you're trying to do and what you're looking for? The repo https://github.com/explosion/displacy has been archived since 2018, as the displaCy visualizers have been integrated into the core library since spaCy v2.0.

[svlandeg]

You can find the docs on how to use Displacy to visualise NER here: https://spacy.io/usage/visualizers#ent

[ch-sander]

Thank you! I looked at the docs first and found this caveat:

If you want to use the visualizers as part of a web application, for example to create something like our online demo, it’s not recommended to only wrap and serve the displaCy renderer. Instead, you should only rely on the server to perform spaCy’s processing capabilities, and use a client-side implementation like displaCy.js to render the JSON-formatted output.

Hence, I looked into displacy.js

Usecase: I render a HTML NER div within a closed database (Ninox). I currently call my own API (flask/python/spacy) but thought I might make use of a JS to directly render my JSON into the HTML markup.

[svlandeg]

Right! You can also have a look at the (old and archived) repo https://github.com/explosion/displacy-ent for inspiration!