React and D3: A Data Visualization Deep Dive (Int/Adv)

Learn how to create dynamic data visualizations with these two highly in demand libraries with this immersive full-day workshop on React and D3. Spend a full day of immersive, hands-on instruction that combines examples, walkthroughs, and practical exercises.

Please note that this is an intermediate workshop! It will benefit developers who feel confident coding in JavaScript and have made some projects with d3.js in the past.

Beginners should RSVP for the beginner's version (https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-SF/events/232368309/) of this same workshop.

Meet our Instructors:

Swizec Teller is author of a number of books, including Data Visualizations with d3.js (https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/data-visualization-d3js) and React+d3.js (https://leanpub.com/reactd3js). He regularly posts good stuff on his blog (http://swizec.com/blog/).

Freddy Rangel is a contributor to React and author of React Under the Hood (https://leanpub.com/reactunderthehood) as well as the upcoming book React: The Good Parts. Get updates on Twitter (https://twitter.com/frangel85).

What we'll cover...

• D3 blackbox components

• Separation of concerns between D3 and React

• Binding user events from d3 in React

• Reacting to user activity and data updates

• Generating SVG client-side without rendering to DOM

• Performance issues/improvements with many elements

• Integrating charts into React apps

• Animations, transitions, rendering and avoiding big re-renders

• Component idempotency/immutability

... and a lot more!

Check out the curriculum online (http://react-university.github.io/react-and-d3-workshop/) and we'll see you there!