Replacing jQuery with D3

Re:Replacing jQuery with D3 by richardwhiuk on Friday May 15, 2015 @08:24AM (#9550104)

or $ = d3.selectAll; surely?

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Re:Replacing jQuery with D3 by prezjordan on Friday May 15, 2015 @10:01AM (#9550595)

You also need to re-bind it to d3.

  $ = d3.selectAll.bind(d3);

Since `this` in the `selectAll` will refer to whatever is before the period. When we reassign to `$` in `$ = d3.selectAll`, we lose that. Silly, isn't it?

Demo: http://jsbin.com/guyisewexu/1/edit?js,console

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