Implementing D3 as client-side only package

[j-low]

I am trying to implement D3 in an app I am building with Nuxt. I have successfully imported it into a view in the <script> section with import * as d3 from 'd3' however because the app is being rendered server-side D3's functionality doesn't work (i.e. d3.select(...)). I referred to the Nuxt documentation regarding of client-side only plugins and I attempted to implement the pattern in my nuxt.config.js file:

module.exports = {
  head: {
    title: 'My Demo App',
    meta: [...],
    link: [...]
  },

  loading: {...},

  plugins: [
     { src: '~node_modules/d3/build/d3.js', ssr: false}
  ]
}

However D3 throws a ReferenceError while looking for document and Nuxt throws a SyntaxError in the console pointing to something in the plugins field of nuxt.config.js. Would someone be able to point to what I'm doing wrong?

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[apertureless]

Have you tried to wrap a if condition around it?

if (process.BROWSER_BUILD && process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production') { 
.. 
}

[piyushchauhan2011]

Hey @j-low , were you able to find the solution to above problem. I resolved it by defining a d3.js file in plugins directory (https://github.com/piyushchauhan2011/nuxt-component/blob/master/plugins/d3.js)

Also, I think we need to also include it as a vendor in nuxt.config.js ( https://github.com/piyushchauhan2011/nuxt-component/blob/master/nuxt.config.js#L55 )

Then I used it in about.vue page ( https://github.com/piyushchauhan2011/nuxt-component/blob/master/pages/about.vue ) which appends an svg, refreshing the page also don't throw any error @j-low ?

[asifm]

I followed @piyushchauhan2011 suggestions and it worked. It seems we don't really need to register d3 as a plugin or add anything to nuxt.config.js. As long as we do any dom manipulation from within mounted(), everything seems to work.

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