Add optional animation to charts using ReactJS transitions about react-d3

[esbullington]

Thanks for your suggestion. What kind of animations are you interested in? Between different chart states across different data frames, or chart effects (like mouseovers) within a single data frame?

I'm hoping React can enable a nice API for transitions between chart data (chart effects should be pretty straightforward), but I need to read more of React's lower-level code around the ReactTransitionGroup to figure out if React's rendering is the best approach, or if I'm better off using d3's animation abstracted behind React components.

[PxlBuzzard]

I would like to see transitions between different data frames, such as what Cubism.js does. Cubism uses D3, so it might act as a useful reference.

[esbullington]

I definitely plan on implementing this type of animation after I created 5-6 basic types of charts. I'm leaving this open in the meantime.

As a reference, I'm leaving this link here, which provides a rough benchmark of React vs d3 transition performance.

And here's what I think I've decided on as an approach for our animations:
https://github.com/pleasetrythisathome/react.animate
...uses d3 to animate component by mutating component state.

[frederickfogerty]

I'm working on this for internal prototypes, I should be able to open-source it to this library when I'm done (soon, before v0.5 at least).

[yang-wei]

close due to inactive