Reanimate: Haskell library for building declarative animations from SVG graphics

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  • reanimate

    Haskell library for building declarative animations based on SVG graphics

    Is this the discussion you're referring to? https://github.com/reanimate/reanimate/discussions/210

    It's actually pretty interesting to read. The author makes a not totally unreasonable argument as for why it uses unsafePerformIO.

    Now what I'm really curious about is why the very first example on the site I clicked into the source code for, a simple 59-line example, is using unsafePerformIO. That actually worries me more because it suggests that as a user I might have to use unsafePerformIO. https://github.com/reanimate/reanimate/blob/d4d3898831edb4aa...

  • plot-create-react-app-example

    An example of Observable Plot with Create React App

    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

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  • 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

  • react-three-fiber

    🇨🇭 A React renderer for Three.js

    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

  • clumsy-graphics

    a tool for rapidly developing animations where frames are described using svg elements à la react 🙃

    for those interested in a typescript / react alternative checkout https://github.com/clumsycomputer/clumsy-graphics

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