You're reading from D3.js Quick Start Guide Create amazing, interactive visualizations in the browser with JavaScript

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789342383

Length 180 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Matthew Huntington

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To get the most out of this book

This book assumes a basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, and what a server is, in order to be able to work with the code and concepts given in this book.

For this book you really only need to download and install the following:

Chrome, available at https://www.google.com/chrome/: a web browser so that we can view our visualizations.
Node: https://nodejs.org/en/: This allows us to run JavaScript from the terminal. In Chapter 4, Making a Basic Scatter Plot Interactive, we will use it so that we can make AJAX calls.
A code editor. I'd suggest Atom if you're new to coding: https://atom.io/.

Download the example code files

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Select the SUPPORT tab.
Click on Code Downloads & Errata.
Enter the name of the book in the Search box and follow the onscreen instructions.

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We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/9781789342383_ColorImages.pdf .

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Mount the downloaded WebStorm-10*.dmg disk image file as another disk in your system."

A block of code is set as follows:

<circle r=50 cx=50 cy=50 fill=red stroke=blue stroke-width=5></circle>

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

<head>
       <link rel="stylesheet" href="app.css">
</head>

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Select System info from the Administration panel."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.