If anyone is having this problem, just use the tutorial series' on Observable. They really are great and provide a nice environment for learning. Later, when yo

If anyone is having this problem, just use the tutorial series' on Observable. They really are great and provide a nice environment for learning. Later, when you want to productionize it or create self-contained applications, nothing's stopping you. A quick google will show you how to build your D3 chart as a React component. You're not learning any non-transferable skills by learning on Observable. If I'm already writing a comment, I'd like to say that D3 is so awesome and magical! It's surprisingly easy to create nice-looking animated visualizations. After going through the Observable tutorials for fun I quickly found ways to use it at my employer[0] and create various useful and well-looking animations, you can see one here: https://youtu.be/N9haFA_MwdM https://youtu.be/N9haFA_MwdM FWIW the tutorial series I used myself was https://observablehq.com/collection/@sxywu/introduction-to-d3-js https://observablehq.com/collection/@sxywu/introduction-to-d... , I recommend it very much. [0]:https://spacelift.io https://spacelift.io