General Update Pattern, III

By adding transitions, we can more easily follow the elements as they are entered, updated and exited. Separate transitions are defined for each of the three states.

Note that no transition is applied to the merged enter + update selection; this is because it would supersede the transition already scheduled on entering and updating elements. It's possible to schedule concurrent elements by using transition.transition or by setting transition.id, but it's simpler here to only transition the x-position on update; for entering elements, the x-position is assigned statically.

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forked from mbostock's block: General Update Pattern, III

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>

text {
  font: bold 48px monospace;
}

.enter {
  fill: green;
}

.update {
  fill: #333;
}

.exit {
  fill: brown;
}

</style>
<body>
<script src="//d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script>

var alphabet = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz".split("");

var width = 960,
    height = 500;

var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
    .attr("width", width)
    .attr("height", height)
  .append("g")
    .attr("transform", "translate(32," + (height / 2) + ")");

function update(data) {

// DATA JOIN
  // Join new data with old elements, if any.
  var text = svg.selectAll("text")
      .data(data, function(d) { return d; });

// UPDATE
  // Update old elements as needed.
  text.attr("class", "update")
    .transition()
      .duration(750)
      .attr("x", function(d, i) { return i * 32; });

// ENTER
  // Create new elements as needed.
  text.enter().append("text")
      .attr("class", "enter")
      .attr("dy", ".35em")
      .attr("y", -60)
      .attr("x", function(d, i) { return i * 32; })
      .style("fill-opacity", 1e-6)
      .text(function(d) { return d; })
    .transition()
      .duration(750)
      .attr("y", 0)
      .style("fill-opacity", 1);

// EXIT
  // Remove old elements as needed.
  text.exit()
      .attr("class", "exit")
    .transition()
      .duration(750)
      .attr("y", 60)
      .style("fill-opacity", 1e-6)
      .remove();
}

// The initial display.
update(alphabet);

// Grab a random sample of letters from the alphabet, in alphabetical order.
setInterval(function() {
  update(d3.shuffle(alphabet)
      .slice(0, Math.floor(Math.random() * 26))
      .sort());
}, 1500);

</script>

https://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js