react-svg-pan-zoom VS react-indiana-drag-scroll

One of the goals of this week was to add statefulness to the skill tree app. Fortunately, pan and zoom works perfectly fine out of the box. Event listeners for keyboard shortcuts were actually pretty easy to add. One portion that I struggled with was experimenting with PUT, PATCH, and POST methods using RTK Query on the frontend. Despite understanding how it all works, there's that nagging feeling in the back my head that's like, there's no way this is going to work. But it did work. I have CRUD functionality now!

At first, I was going to use react-indiana-drag-scroll to solve the first problem. And it worked. But I had a feeling that there might be a solution that solved both of these problems at the same time. Searching on libhunt, openbase, and duckduckgo, I found out that this problem is actually very old and the term that better fit my problem was "pan and zoom". Searching with this term, I stumbled upon react-pan-and-zoom-hoc, which helped solve my problem, but it was difficult to fidget with because rather than having a simple component, the component spit out the correct x, y axes translation that would need to be worked into the component's CSS. No bueno. I attempted to jerry-rig this package for two days before giving up and switching to react-svg-pan-zoom, which worked pretty much instantly and was exactly what I needed.

Any components that require zoom & pan. I've tried rolling my own for an SVG application but handling the screen-view matrices was too difficult ._. Went with a library instead (https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-svg-pan-zoom).

At first, I was going to use react-indiana-drag-scroll to solve the first problem. And it worked. But I had a feeling that there might be a solution that solved both of these problems at the same time. Searching on libhunt, openbase, and duckduckgo, I found out that this problem is actually very old and the term that better fit my problem was "pan and zoom". Searching with this term, I stumbled upon react-pan-and-zoom-hoc, which helped solve my problem, but it was difficult to fidget with because rather than having a simple component, the component spit out the correct x, y axes translation that would need to be worked into the component's CSS. No bueno. I attempted to jerry-rig this package for two days before giving up and switching to react-svg-pan-zoom, which worked pretty much instantly and was exactly what I needed.