{
  "id": 17733243,
  "title": "State Explorer: A Zoomable Timeline for React",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/state-explorer-a-zoomable-timeline-for-react",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-02T02:53:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/albertdavletov/state-explorer-a-zoomable-timeline-for-react-dmp"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The State Explorer is a new open-source React component that builds upon an old Azure visualization idea. The component allows users to view a zoomable timeline with two levels: a full history on the bottom and a close look at a selected period on the top. Users can drag the blue window inside the timeline to move through time or resize an edge to zoom in on the detail chart above. The component is highly customizable, allowing developers to provide entities, state intervals, and colors for their app.",
  "summary": "I turned an old Azure visualization idea into an open-source React component. The useful part is the little window at the bottom. Imagine an API that was healthy all morning, degraded for five minutes, then healthy again. On a chart showing six hours, that five-minute interval is easy to skim past. A table gives you the exact timestamps, but makes it harder to see how that incident fits into the…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}