Doing Force Layout in D3 v4

So most of the solutions to the D3 Force Layout Challenge has been done in v3, but how to do it in v4?

The trouble I’m finding is trying to get the flags to work right. It’s currently showing and they do behave as nodes in that when you click and drag, the links also move too. Problem is they don’t move on the screen!

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Javascript (made within React):

createForceGraph() {
const { nodes, links } = this.state;
console.log(nodes);
console.log(links);

const w = 800;
const h = 500;

const margin = {
  top: 30,
  right: 30,
  bottom: 80,
  left: 80
};

const svg = d3.select('.chart')
              .append('svg')
              .attr('width', w)
              .attr('height', h);

const simulation = d3.forceSimulation()
                     .force('link', d3.forceLink().id(function(d, i) { return i }).distance(1))
                     .force('charge', d3.forceManyBody().strength(1))
                     .force('center', d3.forceCenter(w / 2, h / 2))
                     .force('collision', d3.forceCollide(12));

const link = svg.append('g')
                .attr('class', 'links')
                .selectAll('line')
                .data(links)
                .enter()
                .append('line')
                .attr('stroke', 'black');

const node = d3.select('.nodes')
                .selectAll('img')
                .data(nodes)
                .enter()
                .append('img')
                .attr('class', d => {
                  return `flag flag-${d.code}`;
                })
                .call(d3.drag()
                        .on('start', dragstarted)
                        .on('drag', dragged)
                        .on('end', dragended));

simulation.nodes(nodes)
          .on('tick', ticked);

simulation.force('link')
          .links(links);

function ticked() {
   link
       .attr("x1", function(d) { return d.source.x; })
       .attr("y1", function(d) { return d.source.y; })
       .attr("x2", function(d) { return d.target.x; })
       .attr("y2", function(d) { return d.target.y; });

   node
       .style("left", function(d) { return d.x + 'px'; })
       .style("top", function(d) { return d.y + 'px'; });
}


function dragstarted(d) {
  if (!d3.event.active) simulation.alphaTarget(0.3).restart();
  d.fx = d.x;
  d.fy = d.y;
}

function dragged(d) {
  d.fx = d3.event.x;
  d.fy = d3.event.y;
}

function dragended(d) {
  if (!d3.event.active) simulation.alphaTarget(0);
  d.fx = null;
  d.fy = null;
}

}

HTML:

<div>D3 Force-Directed Layout
        <div className='chart'>
          <div className='nodes'></div>
        </div>
      </div>

Below is inside your function ticked() :

Try change the above into this :
node .attr(“x”, function(d) { return d.x + ‘px’; }) .attr(“y”, function(d) { return d.y + ‘px’; });

Because i don’t recall svg elements have left and top attributes, that is for HTML elements.

i may need help again on the svg much later on