Range Slider and Selector in JavaScript

How to add range sliders to a D3.js-based line or scatter chart. Examples of Range Sliders

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Basic Range Slider on Time Series

var rawDataURL = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/datasets/master/2016-weather-data-seattle.csv';
var xField = 'Date';
var yField = 'Mean_TemperatureC';

var selectorOptions = {
    buttons: [{
        step: 'month',
        stepmode: 'backward',
        count: 1,
        label: '1m'
    }, {
        step: 'month',
        stepmode: 'backward',
        count: 6,
        label: '6m'
    }, {
        step: 'year',
        stepmode: 'todate',
        count: 1,
        label: 'YTD'
    }, {
        step: 'year',
        stepmode: 'backward',
        count: 1,
        label: '1y'
    }, {
        step: 'all',
    }],
};

d3.csv(rawDataURL, function(err, rawData) {
    if(err) throw err;

    var data = prepData(rawData);
    var layout = {
        title: {
            text: 'Time series with range slider and selectors'
        },
        xaxis: {
            rangeselector: selectorOptions,
            rangeslider: {}
        },
        yaxis: {
            fixedrange: true
        }
    };

    Plotly.newPlot('myDiv', data, layout);
});

function prepData(rawData) {
    var x = [];
    var y = [];

    rawData.forEach(function(datum, i) {

        x.push(new Date(datum[xField]));
        y.push(datum[yField]);
    });

    return [{
        mode: 'lines',
        x: x,
        y: y
    }];
}