plot-create-react-app-example VS react-three-fiber

Yeah, I wish this project had a React component backend.

D3.js and Observable Plot don't work that well with modern reactive frontend frameworks either though. They don't diff the SVG tree. The recommended way to react to some data change is to rebuild the whole SVG in a useEffect [1], when in fact you could just have a reactive SVG tree [2]. You just have to unpack and recode what would D3 do (see the case about Axis in the last link). Using enter(), update() and exit() seems to no longer be the way to do things. Also, React components offers great composability to the programmer.

I wish there was a maintained React version of Observable Plot; just like what React-Three-Fiber [3] does with Three.js. Or maybe a version of this Reanimate lib into a React component.

[1] https://github.com/observablehq/plot-create-react-app-exampl...

[2] https://wattenberger.com/blog/react-and-d3

[3] https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber

this is perfect then. a large part of the threejs userbase is using https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber (roughly 1/4, and growing) and this is also where you find lots of job opportunities. fiber has a vast eco system, but if you can pair this with your knowledge of shaders you'll find a job tomorrow if you wanted.

there's 3d with threeJS you could play around with that and hooking it into react with react-three-fiber.

Have you looked at this: https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber

Only instance in recent memory where I was able to get something working with Expo but not the CLI was when trying to integrate react-three-fiber, but even that may be resolved now.

this will put you at a massive advantage: https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber it's a renderer, just like react-dom, it won't change what threejs is or how it functions.

there's a whole eco system around three in react and next. it starts with react-three-fiber, drei has tons of helpers, and then there's three-next for when you need 100% lighthouse, persisting canvas across routes etc.

I picked the stack I did to expand upon my skill set. In particular, I wanted to brush up on react-three-fiber, react-spring & drei.

I think the easiest for you would be to get into this through web development try this https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber coupled with this https://github.com/pmndrs/react-xr But don't expect super beautiful graphic from this, it's abstraction over three.js library which is abstraction over webgl standard which implements OpenGL ES 2.0 which is 7 years old graphics standard targeted to mobile devices with not much power. Or you can experiment with unity (unity XR) or unreal engine which are harder to learn but produce better graphics.

On the technical side, the ability to have pluggable renderers has been very useful for us. We never would have considered 3D without react-three-fiber. Building cli applications with react-ink is pretty cool.

Then, we need to install the dependencies that we will use in this project. We will use Three.js library, @react-three/fiber and @react-three/drei.