Let's make a face: part 6

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Let's make a face: part 6

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Last edited Dec 20, 2021

Created on Dec 20, 2021

Sixteen randomized smiley faces fill the screen, each generated by reusable React components that split the face into a gold background circle, two eyes, and a D3 arc-based mouth. The code composes `FaceContainer`, `Face`, `BackgroundCircle`, `Eyes`, and `Mouth` components inside an SVG, with the `d3.range` loop in `index.js` creating multiple faces and passing random values for stroke width, eye offsets, eye radius, and mouth dimensions. Each face is rendered independently, showcasing how modular React and D3 v7 can be combined for scalable, varied data-driven graphics.

AI-generated description

Further refactoring the smiley face with React and D3 into multiple components on a need-to-know basis so we can easily scale to multiple faces.

File structure:

index.js
- FaceContainer.js
- Face.js
  - BackGroundCircle.js
  - Eyes.js
  - Mouth.js
    - d3.arc

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