Hi there,
I’m a d3.js developer new to Airtable. I’m trying to work out how to import d3 (which is an external Javascript library) and where to do it so I can get started!
And would I do this in the API or in a scripting block?
Any thoughts?
+4Welcome!
The best place to do this would be in a custom block: Airtable Blocks SDK
With custom blocks, you can install packages from npm, so that should work with D3.
That’s great @Kasra - thank you. Would you be really kind and point me to a link on the syntax to use to install packages from npm. I was no doubt looking in the wrong place but couldn’t find it today.
+4Once you’ve created your custom block and installed the blocks command line tool, you’ll have your block’s code on your computer. From there, you can run npm install --save d3 to install d3.
Here’s a good place to start: Airtable Blocks SDK
Note that you’ll need to sign up for the beta to create custom blocks: Custom apps developer survey
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