gorioli/kgraph

A fast remote data graphing tool supporting realtime updates, sparse graph optimizations, and enhanced client side processing

kgraph's Issues

Using React for animation.

You were talking about using React for animation. Where's the code you were trying to do that with? Maybe I can provide some tips.

I recommend against using React for animation, and instead use React only to render the nested structure of your interface. Your interfaces could be a DOM tree, a Three.js scene graph, etc. Use React only for indicating animation states, and use a external method for animating. For example, you could use Velocity.js, Famous 0.3 (don't use the new Famous, it's really buggy), Animate.css, Tween.js coupled with requestAnimationFrame for performance, or soon our own library (which will use web worker threads to parallel compute matrix transformations and physics).

The reason why you would not want to use React for animation is because in every frame of the animation you'll be running React's diff algorithm and other internal things, which will cost lots of performance.