A Bare Minimum 2D Plotter

An extremely lightweight React component to declaratively (and elegantly) plot shapes on an inline SVG

Update: External Plugins 🥳

You can now use your own shape implementation by passing it as a plugin (see plugin section below for more information). Below are a couple of plugins by @fuddl.

text-marker (Demo)
quadratic-bezier (Demo)

Demo Applications

Responsive Illustrations	On-The-Fly Animations	Interactive Applications

demo	demo	demo
source code	source code	source code

Install

npm install --save bare-minimum-2d

Usage

This is an example of what you can pass to a BareMinimum2d component.

You pass it like so:

import BareMinimum2d from 'bare-minimum-2d'

<div style={{ width: '100%', height: '100vh' }}>
  <BareMinimum2d {...{ data, container }} />
</div>

The component takes the dimensions of its parent and is always centered

Everything you need to know explained in two minutes

A BareMinimum2d component only has two props: container and data. container is a small object with exactly four elements. data is an array containing objects.

Example:

import BareMinimum2d from 'bare-minimum-2d'

const container = {
  color: '#0000FF',
  opacity: 0.2,
  xRange: 300,
  yRange: 500
}

const data = [{
  x: [0],
  y: [0],
  color: "#FFFFFF",
  opacity: 1.0,
  size: 10,
  type: 'points',
  id: 'center'
}]

<div style={{ width: "100%", height: "100vh" }}>
  <BareMinimum2d {...{ data, container }} />
</div>

container.color and container.opacity specifies the canvas color of BareMinimum2d.

The cartesian coordinate system of BareMinimum will follow the diagram below given container.xRange and container.yRange. Position (0, 0) will always be at the center of the rendered component.

                  yRange/2
                     |
                     |
  -xRange/2 -------(0,0)--------- xRange/2
                     |
                     |
                   -yRange/2

Please take a look at more complex example data prop to get the idea. each element of the array data should be a hash-like objectwith a type key which should have a value that is one of the following:

points	ellipse	lines	polygon
plural	singular	plural	singular

Elements of the data array will be stacked based on the order they are declared. The first element will be at the most bottom layer while the last element of the array will be at the top.

All attributes are ALWAYS required, nothing is optional because there are no default values. The id attribute must be unique for each element of the data array.

Create your own

You can add your own shapes as a plugin for example, here's an example plugin written by @fuddl

const Triangle = ({ x, y, transforms, size, color, opacity, id, i }) => {
  const cx = transforms.tx(x)
  const cy = transforms.ty(y)
  const ySize = size * 0.8626
  return (
    <polygon
      {...{
        opacity,
        id: `${id}-${i}`,
        fill: color
      }}
      points={[
        `${cx},${cy - ySize}`,
        `${cx + size},${cy + ySize}`,
        `${cx - size},${cy + ySize}`
      ].join(' ')}
    />
  )
}

const trianglesPlugin = {
  triangle: (element, transforms) => {
    const { size, color, opacity, id } = element
    return element.x.map((x, i) => (
      <Triangle
        {...{
          x,
          y: element.y[i],
          size,
          color,
          opacity,
          id,
          i,
          transforms
        }}
        key={`${id}-${i}`}
      />
    ))
  }
}

And you can use it like so:

const triangle = {
  "x": [-163.72675374383329],
  "y": [-154.33259574213795],
  "opacity": 1,
  "size": 60,
  "color": "#2196F3",
  "type": "triangles",
  "id":"points0"
}

<div style={{ width: "100%", height: "100vh" }}>
  <BareMinimum2d {...{ data: [triangle], container, plugins: [trianglesPlugin] }} />
</div>

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Contributing

Clone this repository.
Add your changes
You can add a demo or update the demo based on your changes somewhere here
After making your change go run the following command to see if it works as you expect.

npm install && npm run build && rm -rf node_modules && cd example && npm install && npm run start

PRs welcome! Please read the contributing guidelines and the commit style guide!

mithi/bare-minimum-2d