Thanks, that makes sense. I'm currently doing D3.js rendering within a Vue component. I suspect that my code will be cleaner if I switch to the Vue.js construct

Thanks, that makes sense. I'm currently doing D3.js rendering within a Vue component. I suspect that my code will be cleaner if I switch to the Vue.js constructs for managing the DOM, rather than D3's enter()/exit()/update(), so even if the performance is ultimately the same, there should still be a maintainability win. It sounds like it's worth me doing a Vue implementation and running some benchmarks.