Center a map in d3 given a geoJSON object

Question

Currently in d3 if you have a geoJSON object that you are going to draw you have to scale it and translate it in order to get it to the size that one wants and translate it

Answer 1

With mbostocks' answer, and Herb Caudill's comment, I started running into issues with Alaska since I was using a mercator projection. I should note that for my own purposes, I am trying to project and center US States. I found that I had to marry the two answers with Jan van der Laan answer with following exception for polygons that overlap hemispheres (polygons that end up with a absolute value for East - West that is greater than 1):

1. set up a simple projection in mercator:

   projection = d3.geo.mercator().scale(1).translate([0,0]);

2. create the path:

   path = d3.geo.path().projection(projection);

3.set up my bounds:

var bounds = path.bounds(topoJson),
  dx = Math.abs(bounds[1][0] - bounds[0][0]),
  dy = Math.abs(bounds[1][1] - bounds[0][1]),
  x = (bounds[1][0] + bounds[0][0]),
  y = (bounds[1][1] + bounds[0][1]);

4.Add exception for Alaska and states that overlap the hemispheres:

if(dx > 1){
var center = d3.geo.centroid(topojson.feature(json, json.objects[topoObj]));
scale = height / dy * 0.85;
console.log(scale);
projection = projection
    .scale(scale)
    .center(center)
    .translate([ width/2, height/2]);
}else{
scale = 0.85 / Math.max( dx / width, dy / height );
offset = [ (width - scale * x)/2 , (height - scale * y)/2];

// new projection
projection = projection                     
    .scale(scale)
    .translate(offset);
}

I hope this helps.