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Alex Hedley
Alex Hedley
16,381 Points
Posted by Alex Hedley
Alex Hedley
16,381 Points

Replicating explainshell join lines

Hi All,

I've just watched the Treehouse show Episode 57.

They showed us Explain Shell which looks an awesome site.

There is a feature that I would like to borrow where once you have chosen a command the arguments are joined to their explaination. http://explainshell.com/explain/tar?args=xzvf+archive.tar.gz

Is this using http://d3js.org/ and is it easy to replicate?

Would http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4063570 be the best example to follow?

I'm a bit rusty on my web design skills and wondered if anyone has done this?

Alex

1 Answer

Chris Akers
Chris Akers
2,527 Points
Chris Akers
Chris Akers
2,527 Points

They are using D3.js but they've done quite a bit of coding to enable them to marry their own markup with the visualization and provide the interactivity they created. What they've done is not trivial and appears to be custom for their use-case so adapting it for your needs might be quite a task. None of the D3.js examples seem very similar to what they've done but I suppose the example you cited is a bit closer than the others.

Alex Hedley
Alex Hedley
16,381 Points
Alex Hedley
Alex Hedley
16,381 Points

Only a few lines code :p

Thanks