Echo JS 0.11.0

What's different betweeen this and just building D3 directly? How does this help?

Seems to be a simple abstraction, since D3 is a very flexible API, it can be easier to work with simpler components.  I haven't looked into this, so can't recommend or comment, just replying on why one might want to use this, or something similar.

A lot of charting/graphing components use D3 under the covers.

D3.js is not meant to provide out of the box graphics. ad3lie is meant to solve this by creating a component that you can design using your own data

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