The Missing Abstraction of Charting
Chris Trevino at React Conf 2018
Charting libraries operate at a high abstraction level, the primary unit of interaction is at the chart level (e.g. BarChart, LineChart). Developers who want to create more custom visualizations usually dive straight into low-level graphics manipulation. In the world of visualization research mark-based visualization systems such as Vega are common, but can be problematic to integrate into applications. In this talk we introduce a grammar-of-graphics based library based on Vega's abstraction, but designed to work well with React and React-Native using a renderless component pattern.