State Explorer: A Zoomable Timeline for React
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 rest of the day. I wanted both views at once: the whole story and a close look at the interesting bi…