> In SVG, all shapes are absolutely positioned. Text does not wrap automatically.
This is not really true — you can position elements inside the SVG coordinate system using percentages and you can mix absolute coordinates and percentages. This allows you to have elements grow and shrink in reaction to width and height without distortion.
Wrapping text is possible with <foreignObject>, simply let HTML/CSS do the text layout wherever you need text within the SVG.
However it is still true that you usually want to do a bunch of calculations in JS based on the width to know how many chart ticks you want, how many labels, etc. But that is pretty easy to compute with the helpers from D3.
This is not really true — you can position elements inside the SVG coordinate system using percentages and you can mix absolute coordinates and percentages. This allows you to have elements grow and shrink in reaction to width and height without distortion.
Wrapping text is possible with <foreignObject>, simply let HTML/CSS do the text layout wherever you need text within the SVG.
However it is still true that you usually want to do a bunch of calculations in JS based on the width to know how many chart ticks you want, how many labels, etc. But that is pretty easy to compute with the helpers from D3.