Data visualization is an essential aspect of many web applications. Bar charts are a commonly used visualization technique to represent data in a visually appealing and understandable format. In this article, we will explore how to create a bar chart in React using two popular libraries: Material-UI and DevExtreme.
DevExpress: DevExpress is a package for controlling and building the user interface of the Window, Mobile, and other applications.
Bar Charts: A bar chart is a pictorial representation of data that presents categorical data with rectangular bars with heights or lengths proportional to the values that they represent. In other words, it is the pictorial representation of the dataset. These data sets contain the numerical values of variables that represent the length or height.
Steps for creating React Application And Installing Module:
Step 1: Create a React application using the following command.
npx create-react-app foldername
Step 2: After creating your project folder i.e. folder name, move to it using the following command.
cd foldername
Step 3: After creating the ReactJS application, install the required modules using the following command.
npm i --save @devexpress/dx-react-core @devexpress/dx-react-chart npm install @material-ui/core npm i --save @devexpress/dx-react-chart-material-ui
Project Structure: It will look like the following :
Project Structure
Example: Now write down the following code in the App.js file. Here, the App is our default component where we have written our code.
Javascript
import React from "react";import Paper from '@material-ui/core/Paper';import { ArgumentAxis, ValueAxis, Chart, BarSeries,} from '@devexpress/dx-react-chart-material-ui';const App = () => { // Sample data const data = [ { argument: 'Monday', value: 30 }, { argument: 'Tuesday', value: 20 }, { argument: 'Wednesday', value: 10 }, { argument: 'Thursday', value: 50 }, { argument: 'Friday', value: 60 }, ]; return ( <Paper> <Chart data={data} > <ArgumentAxis /> <ValueAxis /> <BarSeries valueField="value" argumentField="argument" /> </Chart> </Paper> );}export default App; |
Step to Run Application: Run the application using the following command from the root directory of the project:
npm start
Output: Now open your browser and go to http://localhost:3000/, you will see the following output:
Output
