Bump vega-lite dependency

[jrhoads]

Purpose

This PR updates the vega-lite dependency to a newer version. This update includes several changes to the underlying dependencies that vega-lite relies on, such as vega-expression, vega-util, and yargs.

Approach

The primary change is updating the vega-lite package to a version within the ^6.1 range. This has resulted in corresponding updates to several other packages, including vega-expression, vega-util, and yargs, to ensure compatibility.

Key Modifications

• Updated vega-lite from ^5.19.0 to ^6.1.
• Updated vega-expression from ~5.1.1 to ^6.1.0.
• Updated vega-util from ^1.17.2 to ^2.1.0.
• Updated yargs from ^17.7.2 to ^18.0.0.
• Updated vega-event-selector from ~3.0.1 to ~4.0.0.

Important Technical Details

The dependency updates have brought in newer versions of packages related to terminal output formatting and command-line argument parsing (e.g., cliui, string-width, strip-ansi, wrap-ansi, yargs-parser). These updates are generally improvements and should not introduce breaking changes to the application's core functionality.

Types of changes

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)

• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)

• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

• Dependency Upgrade

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Updated vega-lite visualization library dependency from version 5.19.0 to 6.1. The new version includes recent enhancements, performance optimizations, and bug fixes to support improved charting and visualization capabilities.

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Walkthrough

Dependency version bump for vega-lite from ^5.19.0 to ^6.1 in package.json. No functional code changes or logic modifications.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Change Summary
Dependency Version Update package.json	Updated vega-lite dependency version from ^5.19.0 to ^6.1

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~2 minutes

• Single dependency version update with no code logic changes or functional impact

Pre-merge checks and finishing touches

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title 'Bump vega-lite dependency' directly and specifically describes the primary change—upgrading the vega-lite package version from ^5.19.0 to ^6.1.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

✨ Finishing touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

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• Post copyable unit tests in a comment
• Commit unit tests in branch upgrade-vega-lite

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[coderabbitai]

⚠️ Potential issue | 🟡 Minor

Verify react-vega compatibility and breaking changes before merging vega-lite 6.x.

This is a major version upgrade (5.x → 6.x) with breaking changes. Key concerns:

1. react-vega 7.6.0 supports both vega and vega-lite, but there is no explicit documentation confirming it was tested with vega-lite 6.x. Altair 6.0.0 required a major version bump to support vega-lite 6.1.0, suggesting other libraries may need updates for compatibility.

2. Breaking changes have been identified in vega-lite 6.x. Verify that any vega-lite specifications in the codebase are compatible with the new version (schema changes, deprecated APIs, etc.).

3. Test the application thoroughly after the upgrade to ensure all vega-lite visualizations render correctly and functionality is preserved.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents

In package.json around line 81, the dependency bump to "vega-lite": "^6.1" is a
major upgrade with breaking changes and potential incompatibility with
react-vega; verify compatibility by (1) checking react-vega release notes and
code for explicit support of vega-lite 6.x or plan to upgrade react-vega if a
newer compatible release exists, (2) searching the repo for all vega-lite specs
and updating any schema/deprecated fields to the 6.x schema, (3) running
unit/integration/visual tests and manually validating key visualizations in the
app, and (4) if immediate compatibility isn’t confirmed, revert or pin vega-lite
to the last known-good 5.x version and add tests or CI visual snapshots before
re-attempting the major upgrade.

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