8. update-enter-merge-exit

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8. update-enter-merge-exit

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Created on Jul 22, 2016

This example visualizes the D3 general update pattern, showing how a data-join with enter, update, and exit selections manages a changing set of letters. Entering elements appear in green, updating elements in black, and exiting elements are removed immediately. The code uses `d3.shuffle` and `slice` to generate random subsets of the alphabet every second, and `d3.interval` to trigger a custom `update` function. Without a key function, enter elements append at the end and exit elements remove from the end, demonstrating positional data binding in SVG.

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This example demonstrates D3’s general update pattern, where a data-join is followed by operations on the enter, update and exit selections. Entering elements are shown in green, while updating elements are shown in black. Exiting elements are removed immediately, so they're invisible.

This example does not use a key function for the data-join, so elements may change their associated letter. Entering elements are always added to the end: when the new data has more letters than the old data, new elements are entered to display the new letters. Likewise, exiting letters are always removed from the end when the new data has fewer letters than the old data.

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