How to Build a Graph Visualization Engine and Why You Shouldn’t

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  • d3-force

    Force-directed graph layout using velocity Verlet integration.

  • Layout and position the graph - done by the Simulator, which uses a d3-force library to simulate physical forces on particles. It supports the main thread simulation and offloaded simulation using WebWorkers for a performance boost.

  • Leaflet

    🍃 JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps 🇺🇦

  • Currently, Orb comes with two different views to use: DefaultView and MapView. DefaultView is, as the name suggests, a default view where the graph is rendered on a blank canvas. MapView, on the other hand, renders a graph on top of the map background where each node needs to have a geo position (latitude and longitude). MapView uses Leaflet which is the leading open-source JavaScript library for interactive maps.

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  • orb

    Graph visualization library (by memgraph)

  • Orb Events is an implementation of the in-browser EventEmitter that offers several events (e.g. node/edge clicked, render started/ended, node dragged, etc.). You can subscribe to those events and do any action on top of them. A full list of events that the Orb emits can be found here.

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