@seracio/thirdact

thirdAct

A set of react components that encapsulate d3-selection api

Disclaimer

thirdact is still on a very early stage. It is born of our frustration of using the different workflows that mix React and d3 together.

d3's general update pattern is quite incompatible with React's data binding as React only keeps track of the current data.

This is an experimental attempt to express the d3-selection API in a jsx style. This way, we can mix d3 and React into the render method, without using React hooks such as componentDidUpdate to manage d3 instructions.

• It uses the d3-selection API under the hood, we are just transforming jsx components to d3 instructions
• React's Virtual DOM is not involved or aware of the generated DOM, but we isolate it into an empty React element

A first overview

you can find a full example here

import { scaleLinear } from 'd3-scale';
import React from 'react';
import {
    SelectAll,
    Transition,
    Selection,
    Append,
    Remove
} from '@seracio/thirdact';

const App = ({ data }) => {
    const size = 500;

    const scaleX = scaleLinear()
        .domain([0, data.length - 1])
        .range([100, 400]);

    return (
        <svg
            preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin meet"
            viewBox={`0 0 ${size} ${size}`}
        >
            <text
                x={size / 2}
                y={50}
                style={{
                    alignmentBaseline: 'middle',
                    textAnchor: 'middle',
                    fontFamily: 'sans-serif'
                }}
            >
                Hello thirdact
            </text>
            <SelectAll data={data} selector={'.circle'} root={<g />}>                
                <Selection type="enter">
                    <Append>
                        {/* use react conventions to specify your data */}
                        <circle
                            className="circle"
                            cx={(d, i) => scaleX(i)}
                            cy={100}
                            r={10}
                            style={{ fill: 'transparent' }}
                        />
                    </Append>
                    {/* on a transition, only specify the attr, styles or events you want to update */}
                    <Transition duration={1000}>
                        <circle cy={200} style={{ fill: d => d }} />
                    </Transition>
                </Selection>
                <Selection type="update">
                    <Transition duration={1000}>
                        <circle cx={(d, i) => scaleX(i)} />
                    </Transition>
                </Selection>
                <Selection type="exit">
                    {/* you can chain transitions */}
                    <Transition duration={500}>
                        <circle cy={250} r={5} />
                    </Transition>
                    <Transition duration={500}>
                        <circle cy={400} style={{ fill: 'transparent' }} />
                    </Transition>
                    <Remove />
                </Selection>
            </SelectAll>        
        </svg>
    );
};

Install

yarn add react react-dom d3-selection d3-selection-multi d3-transition lodash.kebabcase
yarn add @seracio/thirdact

Usage

First of all - and if you use d3 modules - you'll need to patch d3-selection-multi and d3-transition to d3 in your root file:

import * as d3 from 'd3-selection';
import 'd3-selection-multi';
import 'd3-transition';

Then you can import the different components of thirdact:

import {
    SelectAll,
    Transition,
    Selection,
    Append,
    Remove
} from '@seracio/thirdact';

API

SelectAll

SelectAll is the root component, it takes several props:

name	type	description
data	Array
selector	string	the equivalent of the d3's selector in d3.selectAll(selector)
getKey	(d,i) => string	an optional function to get the key of the current datum
root	React$Element	the react element where the DOM managed by d3 will be

Selection

Selection is the only component allowed as direct child of SelectAll.
It allows you to use d3's data join by specifying a type props:

name	type	description
type	string	enter or update or exit (and soon enter+exit)

---

Once you have split your data into selections thanks to the general update pattern, you can finally do the mapping between your data and the DOM thans to modifiers:

• Append to create items
• Remove to remove them
• Transition for updating them
• Call to apply them a function

You can chain modifiers.

Append

Append is used to add new tags to the DOM, define their attributes and styles or attach events. thirdact's API is here quite different to its d3 counterpart:

<Append>
    <rect className="toto" 
        x={0} 
        y={(d,i) => i*10} 
        width={(d,i) => d} 
        height={10} 
        styles={{strokeWidth: 2}}
        onClick={(d,i) => console.log(d)}
        />
</Append>

will be transcripted on:

selection.append('rect')
    .attr('class', 'toto')
    .attr('x', 0)
    .attr('y', i*10)
    .attr('width', (d,i) => d)
    .attr('height', 10)
    .style('stroke-width', 2)
    .on('click', (d,i) => console.log(d));

Transitions

Transition currently support these props:

name	type	description
duration	number

You just have to specify the attributes or styles you want to update:

<Transition duration={500}>
    <path
        style={{fill: 'blue'}}
        tween-d={tween}
        />
</Transition>

Note the equivalent of d3's attrTween: tween-[attr name]

Remove

Remove has no props

Call

Call uses a function as a children

<Selection type="enter">
    <Append>
        {/**/}
    </Append>
    <Call>
    {function(selection){
        // ...
    }}
    </Call>
</Selection>

Chaining transformations

<Selection type="enter">
    <Append>
        <circle
            className="circle"
            cx={(d, i) => scaleX(i)}
            cy={100}
            r={10}
            style={{ fill: 'transparent' }}
        />
    </Append>
    <Transition duration={1000}>
        <circle cy={200} style={{ fill: d => d }} />
    </Transition>
</Selection>

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 serac.io

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