Add background coloring to treemap view

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[danvk]

Are you imagining alternative white/gray (ala a table)?

Are there any examples you can point to of tree maps on the web whose design you like?

[hammer]

Something like https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Finland_Export_Treemap.jpg

[JamesMessinger]

Maybe do the color coding based on the directory name? That way, for example, if lodash is being included multiple times, it'll be more obvious because all occurrences would be the same color.

[danvk]

You'd need a lot of colors if you had one per unique directory name!

[JamesMessinger]

Lol. True that. But I'm not thinking about having a huge array of pre-defined colors. Instead, I'm thinking of an algorithm that generates hex color codes from file names. Similar to this algorithm.

[paulirish]

most d3 treemaps don't do unique for everything, but use color/shades to communicate the groupings:

I'm +1 on color, but it'll require some care to make sure it works most effectively.