To help you get started, we've collected the most common ways that d3-node is being used within popular public projects.

d3-node / d3node-linechart / examples / index.js View on Github

const fs = require('fs');
const output = require('d3node-output');
const d3 = require('d3-node')().d3;
const d3nLine = require('../');

const parseTime = d3.timeParse('%d-%b-%y');
const tsvString = fs.readFileSync('data/data.tsv').toString();
const data = d3.tsvParse(tsvString, d => {
  return {
    key: parseTime(d.date),
    value: +d.close
  };
});

// create output files
output('./examples/output', d3nLine({ data: data }), { width: 960, height: 550 });

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D3-Node

Server-side D3 with ease

> Tested on Nodejs v16 & up

see examples >

Why?

• Performance: pre-rendering allows offloading data processing, and network overhead
• Take advantage of the entire ecosystem: npmjs.com
• Static rendering of Data-Driven Documents (D3.js)
• Portable SVG with embedded stylesheets
• Easily adapt examples from bl.ocks.org

Basic usage:

Create a SVG

 import { D3Node } from 'd3-node' // const D3Node = require('d3-node')
 const d3n = new D3Node()      // initializes D3 with container element
 d3n.createSVG(10,20).append('g') // create SVG w/ 'g' tag and width/height
 d3n.svgString() // output: <svg xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="20" width="10"><g></g></svg>

Advanced usage

Setting container & insertion point via selector

 const options = { selector: '#chart', container: '<div id="container"><div id="chart"></div></div>' }
 const d3n = new D3Node(options) // initializes D3 with container element
 const d3 = d3n.d3
 d3.select(d3n.document.querySelector('#chart')).append('span') // insert span tag into #chart
 d3n.html()   // output: <div id="container"><div id="chart"><span></span></div></div>
 d3n.chartHTML()   // output: <div id="chart"><span></span></div>

Inline SVG styles

 const d3n = new D3Node({styles:'.test {fill:#000;}'})
 d3n.createSVG().append('g')
 d3n.svgString()

> Output

<svg xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
   <defs>
     <style type="text/css"> .test{fill:#000;} </style>
   </defs>
   <g></g>
<svg>

Create a canvas (for generating a png)

 const canvasModule = require('canvas'); // supports node-canvas v1 & v2.x
 const d3n = new D3Node({ canvasModule }); // pass it node-canvas
 const canvas = d3n.createCanvas(960, 500);
 const context = canvas.getContext('2d');
 // draw on your canvas, then output canvas to png
 canvas.pngStream().pipe(fs.createWriteStream('output.png'));

See examples for more...

Run Tests:

$ npm test

TODOs:

• Add more examples: (remote data, world map)
• Create Gulp task
• Add option to inject css/js into html output