Lichess PGN Viewer

PGN viewer widget, designed to be embedded in content pages.

This won't replace a fully featured analysis board.

See it in action

• In a forum post
• In an opening page
• In a user blog post
• As a full-screen game embed

License

Lichess PGN Viewer is distributed under the GPL-3.0 license (or any later version, at your option). When you use it for your website, your combined work may be distributed only under the GPL. You must release your source code to the users of your website.

Please read more about GPL for JavaScript on greendrake.info.

Goals

• load and render very fast
• browse through a game
• variation tree
• PGN comments
• players and clocks
• mobile support
• translatable and customisable
• client-side only
• easy to set up on any page

Non Goals

• custom user moves
• engine support
• opening explorer

For these features, use an analysis board or Lichess studies.

Build and run

npm install
npm run sass-dev
npm run watch
npm run demo

Then run the demos in your browser.

Rebuild on code change

npm run watch

Installation

As an NPM package

npm i lichess-pgn-viewer

Usage

import LichessPgnViewer from 'lichess-pgn-viewer';

const lpv = LichessPgnViewer(domElement, {
  pgn: 'e4 c5 Nf3 d6 e5 Nc6 exd6 Qxd6 Nc3 Nf6',
});

// lpv is an instance of Ctrl, providing some utilities such as:
lpv.goTo('first');
lpv.goTo('next');
lpv.flip();
console.log(lpv.game);
// see more in ctrl.ts

Configuration

const lpv = LichessPgnViewer(domElement, {
  pgn: 'e4 c5 Nf3 d6 e5 Nc6 exd6 Qxd6 Nc3 Nf6',
  // ... more Config
});

See all configuration options in the documented source code.

View more examples in demo/index.html

Styles

SCSS (recommended)

If you use SCSS, you can import the styles with:

@import '../../node_modules/lichess-pgn-viewer/scss/lichess-pgn-viewer.lib';

Customisable SCSS variables are available, see how lichess configures lichess-pgn-viewer with SCSS.

CSS

Alternatively you can build a CSS file with

npm run sass-prod

Then copy the dist/lichess-pgn-viewer.css file into your project.