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So, a re-draw. That's disappointing.

Thanks for the example! That's really all I'm asking/wishing for here...if the library handles live data, show me how. If it doesn't handle it without a lot of trouble, or in ways that look clunky, I know it's not the right library for my projects. It's nice to be able to rule things out quickly.

The redraw is only problematic because of the stupid animation, right? If you had done the same chart by hand in d3, you'd still be incurring redraws.

Yeah, the animation restarting is awful. Ideally, it'd morph to the new values, or tick by on a timeline, depending on the type of data. The restarting animation is the worst action I can think of, aside from not updating, at all. I didn't see any configuration for that, but, it's probably possible to avoid it relatively trivially.

There are a few charting libraries with explicitly covered live data support; I'm just surprised it's a complete afterthought for a library that uses React (which I've always thought of as being designed explicitly for providing a good abstraction for a "live" View and ViewModel).

D3 - checkout the last "transition / animation" on https://bost.ocks.org/mike/path/

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