observablehq / observablehq/plot
Document how to implement custom marks
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Description
And in particular, the API of the Mark class, which is currently undocumented.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the Mark class and reviewing its existing public API and documentation patterns. Document how to implement custom marks and describe the Mark class API; the work is done when a newcomer can follow the documentation to create a custom mark and understand the available API.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- data-visualization, documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 72/100