You want to work with D3, but you don’t understand how SVGs are rendered in the browser. This makes it very difficult to understand HTML code that D3 outputs. Let’s tackle some of these issues. The code we will be looking at today was generated by D3. However, in this example, we’re not looking at…
D3.js does two things: (1) It adds HTML to a page and (2) it binds data to that HTML. That’s it. The simplest example of this you will ever see of D3 data are bar charts binded to pixel size. Most examples of D3 in the wild use SVGs or Path html elements. Understanding those…
A linter is formally classified as a Static Code Analysis tool. It is usually a command line tool and it parses a project’s code to look for patterns. It then checks the patterns it finds against generally accepted standards (or custom rules you think are important). The primary purposes of a linter are to find…
In my current role as Director of Product Engineering at FINCURA, I’m often thinking about our front end architecture. For our front end application, we use Angular, with our main concerns being: reliability, testability, and speed to develop new features. To address these concerns, we’ve developed the following architecture. Angular architecture comes down to three…