Show HN: D3 TimelineChart (opens in new tab)

Looks nice. I've done a couple projects with a timeline, i was using this other library: http://visjs.org/timeline_examples.html

comparing the two, the visjs is older with more features overall, but it seems to lack the option of having points instead of bars, like in your example.

There's also this one: https://github.com/namespace-ee/react-calendar-timeline

The documentation sucks (doesn't exist), but the component itself is pretty sweet.

This looks very useful for what we need to do next at work. However, lately I've been avoiding all "layer on top of D3" libraries, in favor of understanding how to do the thing myself in D3, and just doing it that way. Sure, it's sometimes a significantly longer of a solution (300 lines vs 20), but the ability to completely change/improve any aspect of it without needing to switch libraries or dig into the library's source code or learn a new plugin system, this makes it worth the extra lines of code.

In the same style, there is EventDrops: https://github.com/marmelab/EventDrops

Also, I make a timeline javascript widget a few years ago. Sadly, I can't open source it. I remember that then not was any decent widget or library to build an timeline.

If someone like to see it on action :

- http://elgreco.digibis.com/en/musobjects/timeline.html?busq_...

- http://zardoz84.bitbucket.org/example/poli/index.html

- http://zardoz84.bitbucket.org/example/23f/index.html

- http://zardoz84.bitbucket.org/example/jfk/index.html

Perhaps someday I would make a open source clone of it, with some improves that I have in mind to avoid some performance problems when there is too many elements (see the JFK example)

Every time I start using a d3 library I get stuck and end up rewriting with my own code, without stuff that I don't even need, and with all the particulars that I want. Even in react. But, I often search for examples, so thanks for sharing :)

Looks good, but I think the technical term for this is Gantt Chart.

That's really cool! Might use this for my next project.