D3.js is the industry standard for data visualization, yet it seems to be an old library providing functions already present in ES5+ vanilla JS. What am I missing?

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  • d3

    Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. :bar_chart::chart_with_upwards_trend::tada:

  • Ah yeah their homepage and main README are kinda awful at explaining what the library actually does or what value it adds. They have a proper list of all of the different modules/functionality the library offers here, it's quite a lot: https://github.com/d3/d3/blob/main/API.md

  • c3

    :bar_chart: A D3-based reusable chart library

  • Have you tried c3js ? a lot of those would be harder without d3

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