d3.MVC

This repository is very similar to the ToDoMVC library built to compare MVC front-end frameworks but it will be comparing front end frameworks and their ability to work with d3.js. This was created for the talk on reusable visualizations (video and slides). Chris Viau(@d3visualization) also spoke on the reusable visualization API (video and slides). Jyri Tuulos(@jtuulos) talked about creating Views in backbone and how to use d3.js in an OO way (video and slides).

-Miles @milr0c

Installation

git clone --recursive git://github.com/milroc/d3.MVC.git

Running

In order to run a specific example. python -m SimpleHTTPServer in that directory will allow you to run it, if not I recommend you look at the README.md in said subfolder.

Code Structure

reusable API

The reusable visualiztion API is an initial paradigm that Mike Bostock has given in the talk. He goes over a convention that is used to create the reusable components of d3.js (e.g d3.svg.axis). Every example in this folder of the repository is using the name of the folder (e.g: /d3.MVC/reusableAPI/angular is using angular.js).

MVC Paradigm

This is following an object oriented MV* paradigm that would be akin to leveraging the library itself, this is not leveraging the d3.js reusable chart API.

vanilla d3.js

This is the code created solely in d3.js with little to no encapsulation.

Please Pull Request

gist based

If your favorite purely frontend MV* framework isn't supported, create a gist and add it as a submodule. Follow vanillad3 as an example.

github based

Please only create your own repository, if the framework supported is one of the hybrid frontend/backend system (e.g: derby, meteor). Follow reusableAPI/derby-barchart as an example.