On larger graphs it becomes hard to see the directionality of edges in-flight. There are too many edges and nodes that being able to trace each edges source/target is very difficult.
A possible approach is to support a variation of this animated trip edge type as it provides directionality without the requirement of seeing the source/target.
See (https://deck.gl/examples/trips-layer/):

This issue is opened to discuss possible ways of displaying directionality on larger graphs