Awesome stuff. I’ve been going through JS libraries looking for better approaches to DOM manipulation. Previous examples of Angular with D3 were hard to use for my needs (though my lack of Angular as well as D3 skills didn’t help). I decided to implement Angular parts by myself (data binding, event bus), since the integration gave me headache with few returns.

I saw in twitter that you already got a ping from Rich Harris of Ractive fame. Hopefully you have time to blog about your experience on that front. I really liked working with Ractive, but couldn’t figure out how to combine D3’s functionality with it (like path and axis objects). Your post certainly gave me great pointers. Also, I did not manage to build complex tables with Mustache templates. On that front I hope React from Facebook is even better, but my testing is till ongoing.

I’d like to see a library on top of D3 that would use its extensive algorithms without the DOM manipulation. Your approach seems great for Angular use, where I probably shall return also. Still, with Ractive getting visualization going was really easy (not to mention fun) and React promises great performance in addition of strong component structure. D3 however has so much more for visualization at this point (geo module, scales to name a few).