apexcharts

What is apexcharts?

ApexCharts is a modern charting library that helps developers create beautiful and interactive visualizations for web applications. It supports a wide range of chart types and is highly customizable, making it suitable for various data visualization needs.

What are apexcharts's main functionalities?

Line Chart

This code creates a simple line chart to visualize sales data over a period of months. The `series` array contains the data points, and the `xaxis` object defines the categories for the x-axis.

const options = { chart: { type: 'line' }, series: [{ name: 'sales', data: [30, 40, 35, 50, 49, 60, 70, 91, 125] }], xaxis: { categories: ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep'] } }; const chart = new ApexCharts(document.querySelector('#chart'), options); chart.render();

Bar Chart

This code creates a bar chart to visualize revenue data across different quarters. The `series` array contains the data points, and the `xaxis` object defines the categories for the x-axis.

const options = { chart: { type: 'bar' }, series: [{ name: 'revenue', data: [10, 15, 25, 30, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60] }], xaxis: { categories: ['Q1', 'Q2', 'Q3', 'Q4', 'Q5', 'Q6', 'Q7', 'Q8', 'Q9'] } }; const chart = new ApexCharts(document.querySelector('#chart'), options); chart.render();

Pie Chart

This code creates a pie chart to visualize the distribution of data among different teams. The `series` array contains the data points, and the `labels` array defines the labels for each slice of the pie.

const options = { chart: { type: 'pie' }, series: [44, 55, 13, 43, 22], labels: ['Team A', 'Team B', 'Team C', 'Team D', 'Team E'] }; const chart = new ApexCharts(document.querySelector('#chart'), options); chart.render();

Area Chart

This code creates an area chart to visualize temperature data over a week. The `series` array contains the data points, and the `xaxis` object defines the categories for the x-axis.

const options = { chart: { type: 'area' }, series: [{ name: 'temperature', data: [31, 40, 28, 51, 42, 109, 100] }], xaxis: { categories: ['Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat', 'Sun'] } }; const chart = new ApexCharts(document.querySelector('#chart'), options); chart.render();

Scatter Plot

This code creates a scatter plot to visualize two sets of sample data. The `series` array contains the data points for each sample, and the `xaxis` and `yaxis` objects define the tick amounts for the axes.

const options = { chart: { type: 'scatter' }, series: [{ name: 'Sample A', data: [[16.4, 5.4], [21.7, 2], [25.4, 3], [19, 2], [10.9, 1]] }, { name: 'Sample B', data: [[36.4, 13.4], [1.7, 11], [5.4, 8], [9, 17], [1.9, 4]] }], xaxis: { tickAmount: 10 }, yaxis: { tickAmount: 7 } }; const chart = new ApexCharts(document.querySelector('#chart'), options); chart.render();

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README

A modern JavaScript charting library to build interactive charts and visualizations with simple API.

Download and Installation

Installing via npm

Direct <script> include

<script src="https://unpkg.com/apexcharts/dist/apexcharts.min.js"></script>

Usage

Creating your first chart

To create a basic bar chart with minimal configuration, write as follows:

var options = {
  chart: {
    type: 'bar'
  },
  series: [{
    name: 'sales',
    data: [30, 40, 35, 50, 49, 60, 70, 91, 125]
  }],
  xaxis: {
    categories: [1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999]
  }
}

var chart = new ApexCharts(document.querySelector("#chart"), options);
chart.render();

This will render the following chart

A little more than the basic

You can create a combination of different charts, sync them and give your desired look with unlimited possibilites. Below is an example of synchronized charts with github style.

Some interactivity

Zoom, Pan, Scroll through data. Make selections and load other charts using those selections. An example showing some interactivity

Dynamic Data Updation

Another approach to Drill down charts where one selection updates the data of other charts. An example of loading dynamic series into charts is shown below

Annotations

Annotations allows you to write custom text on specific values or on axes values. Valuable to expand the visual appeal of your chart and make it more informative.

Heatmaps

Use Heatmaps to represent data through colors and shades. Frequently used with bigger data collections, they are valuable for recognizing patterns and area of focus.

Gauges

The tiny little gauges are an important part of a dashboard and are useful in displaying single digit data. A demo of these gauges:

Sparklines

Utilize sparklines to indicate trends in data, for example, occasional increments or declines, monetary cycles, or to feature most extreme and least values:

What's included

The download bundle includes the following files and directories providing a minified single file in the dist folder. Every asset including icon/css is bundled in the js itself to avoid loading multiple files.

apexcharts/
├── dist/
│   └── apexcharts.min.js
├── src/
│   ├── assets/
│   ├── charts/
│   ├── modules/
│   ├── utils/
│   └── apexcharts.js
└── samples/

Development

Install dependencies and run project

npm install
npm run start

This will start the webpack watch and any changes you make to src folder will autocompile and output will be produced in dist folder.

Minifying the src

npm run build

Where do I go next?

Head over to the documentation section to read more about how to use different kinds of charts and explore all options.

Credits.

ApexCharts uses SVG.js for drawing shapes, animations, applying svg filters and a lot more under the hood.

License

ApexCharts is released under MIT license. You are free to use, modify and distribute this software, as long as the copyright header is left intact.