A restyled mod of Steven Hall's superb and, for me, ultra-timely 2014 tutorial, “Creating Custom D3 Directives in AngularJS.” Hall’s repo was just what my Angular studies needed in 2015: a practical breakdown of factories, services, and directives around a music API, a lively and ng-integrated D3 visualization of that selfsame data, he even tossed in a cool responsive squish move for the charts–one particularly well-suited to CodePen’s E-layout, by the by. What a guy!
Besides cloning it here as an EZ-forkable CodePen, I've clipped the design, plugged artist images into the Active Tag cloud (note the handy clipPath maneuver), and swapped a full-screen background loader in place of external artist links. Last's zoomed thumbnails become full-page-plausible thanks to [Transparent