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Table Of Contents
Learn D3.js - Second Edition
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D3 is a JavaScript library, and the more JavaScript you know, the more you will benefit from it. This chapter is a reference guide to the JavaScript features, browser APIs, and data formats that are most relevant to D3 development.
This is an optional chapter if you already know JavaScript. The print edition of this book includes only this introduction and a topic overview (so you can decide how much of it you need). The full chapter is available online, with runnable code examples in the book’s GitHub repository.
If you are already comfortable with modern JavaScript, you can skip it, but even experienced developers may find it worth a quick scan.
If you know basic JavaScript (variables, functions, loops, arrays, and objects) but haven’t worked with ES2019 features like arrow functions, destructuring, spread operators, promises, or modules, this chapter will fill those gaps. All code examples in this book use ES2019, and these...