Is React compatible with d3-drag?

[alexung]

My situation is that I have multiple polylines/polygons with circles at each point, and when I click a circle I'd like the polyline to move appropriately. I don't have any id's/className's on any polyline, and the circles are being caught via d3.event.

I have a version of this working (somewhat) at the moment but there are few issues:

1. My cursor, if moving too fast, will stop dragging the previously-dragged circle
2. The circle, if it gets too close to another point with a circle on it, will stop moving the point that I was originally moving and instead move the point that I'm close to.
3. Sometimes, circles are completely dragged off the line and unable to rejoin the line.

I'm confused about how to get drag and drop to work with d3/react and if this is even a potentially fruitful pursuit. Would appreciate some help.

[mbostock]

If the drag behavior is only listening to your circles, then if the mouse “escapes” a circle, you’ll stop receiving mouse events and drag will stop. So typically you need to put something in the background to capture mouse events, such as a rect with fill: none and pointer-events: all.

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