Bringing Together React, D3, And Their Ecosystem

React and D3.js are great tools to help us deal with the DOM and its challenges. They can surely work together, and we are empowered to choose where to draw the line between them.

By Marcos Iglesias

Since its creation in 2011, D3.js has become the de facto standard for building complex data visualizations on the web. React is also quickly maturing as the library of choice for creating component-based user interfaces.

Both React and D3 are two excellent tools designed with goals that sometimes collide. Both take control of user interface elements, and they do so in different ways. How can we make them work together while optimizing for their distinct advantages according to your current project?

In this post, we will see how we can approach building React projects that need the powerful charting goodness of D3. We will discover different techniques and how to choose the best library for your needs in your main work and side projects.

D3 And The DOM

The D3 in D3.js stands for data-driven documents. D3.js is a low-level library that provides the building blocks necessary to create interactive visualizations. It uses web standards such as SVG, HTML, canvas, and CSS to assemble a front-end toolbox with a vast API and almost limitless control over the look and behavior of…