Introduction to D3.js with React

Welcome to Introduction to D3.js with React!

This course will help you to get up and running with D3.js in a React environment as quickly as possible. The course will teach you to program in the latest version of D3 - version 6.x.

Course Outline

The course is structured in a code-along format, gradually adding on to what you can do with the D3 library over the course of 5 sections.

Section 1:

• Telling you why you should learn D3

• Going over the structure of the course

• Explaining course resources

Section 2:

• Getting your environment setup

• Creating a wrapper for using React and D3 together

• Introducing SVGs

• Taking your first steps in D3

Section 3:

• Building a static bar chart with D3

• How to add scales and axes to a chart

• Introducing the D3 axis generators

• Adding in the D3 margin convention

Section 4:

• Building an updating bar chart with D3

• Introduction to the D3 Interval method

• Using the D3 transition suite

• Understanding the D3 General Update Pattern

• Updating the chart according to user input through React

Section 5:

• Building a complete web app with React and D3

• Building a scatterplot with D3

• Handling events between React and D3

• Practicing using the two libraries together

Should I Take This Course?

D3 is an incredibly powerful library to use, with a strong community of developers which is growing every day. The library famously doesn't play well together with React, as they both want total control over the DOM. Take this course if you want to learn the right way to get these two libraries together, and get up and running as quickly as possible.

This course is not an introductory course to web development. Students are expected to have had experience coding in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and React before enrolling in this course.