A framework for building D3 components with ReactJS
Both D3 and React want to have their hands on the steering wheel when it comes to the DOM. This leads to one of two approaches:
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Generate the SVG DOM nodes using D3 in a React "leaf" component. React is effectively blind to the D3-generated DOM nodes.
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Generate the SVG DOM nodes using React, and use D3 as a math library for computing the properties of those elements.
D3light takes the latter approach, supplying a base React component with conventions for passing in data, as well as components for common SVG elements (g, line, rect, etc…) D3light codifies the ways in which new data affects the rendering of components, and sets up common listeners for things that trigger re-renders, like component dimension changes.
D3light is not a charting library for React, in the same sense that D3 is not a charting library but a visualization toolkit.