Wrote an article on this concept last year: http://formidable.com/blog/2015/05/21/react-d3-layouts/
and spoke about it at Reactive2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8TwLWsR40Y
Have been doing data visualizations like this ever since, it works. Yes, the hardest part is animation, which we had to address, as well as the axis components and other higher order functionality that builds on d3 itself:
https://github.com/FormidableLabs/victory-animation
http://formidable.com/open-source/victory/docs/victory-axis/
Wrote an article on this concept last year: http://formidable.com/blog/2015/05/21/react-d3-layouts/
and spoke about it at Reactive2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8TwLWsR40Y
Have been doing data visualizations like this ever since, it works. Yes, the hardest part is animation, which we had to address, as well as the axis components and other higher order functionality that builds on d3 itself:
https://github.com/FormidableLabs/victory-animation
http://formidable.com/open-source/victory/docs/victory-axis/