vis: add `useColorProvider` hook to manage what colors are being assigned to which nodes

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vis: add `useColorProvider` hook to manage what colors are being assigned to which nodes

Closed this issue 5 months ago · 3 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We need to globally manage color assignments in visualizations so that we can render a legend (#1427)

Describe the solution you'd like

add a useColorProvider hook that provides a color function to assign colors to things (for use in views), and a Map that contains all the colors that have been assigned and to what (for use in the legend)

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Answer 1 · 2024-04-04T16:47:38.000Z

I would like to work on this

Answer 2 · 2024-04-08T03:05:55.000Z

Also giving an update here. Definitely a bit stumped. Wrapping my head around the idea of hooks is weird. Reading through the react docs though and I'll hopefully have made some progress for Tuesday.

Answer 3 · 2024-04-08T16:40:00.000Z

You just need to implement the functions in the ColorProvider class, scaffolded in #1609. The hook is already set up.