I agree, when I use d3 and react together I tend to use all of the non-DOM-manipulating d3 utilities for transforming data then react for rendering the DOM. D3

I agree, when I use d3 and react together I tend to use all of the non-DOM-manipulating d3 utilities for transforming data then react for rendering the DOM. D3 is a swiss army knife of utilities for data visualization, and as you point out only a small part of it deals with DOM manipulation.