react-jsx-highstock

This package exposes everything from react-jsx-highcharts, but additionally provides components for building Highstock charts.

N.B. You can build both Highcharts and Highstock charts from this package.

Introduction

A project for integrating Highcharts into a React app, with proper React components for each Highcharts/Highstock component. Inspired by Recharts, but for Highcharts, obviously.

Why React JSX Highstock?

Unlike other React Highcharts wrapper libraries, React JSX Highcharts is designed to be dynamic - it is optimised for interactive charts that need to adapt to business logic in your React application.

Other Highcharts wrappers completely destroy and recreate the chart when the configuration options change, which is very wasteful and inefficient.

React JSX Highcharts uses a different approach, by providing React components for each Highcharts component, we can observe exactly which prop has changed and call the optimal Highcharts method behind the scenes.

For example, if the data prop were to change on a <Series /> component, React JSX Highcharts can follow Highcharts best practices and use the setData method rather than the more expensive update.

React JSX Highcharts also enables you to write your own Highcharts components, via it's powerful higher order components.

Installation

npm install --save react-jsx-highstock

You'll need the peer dependencies too

npm install --save react react-dom prop-types highcharts@^7.0.0

Licensing

React JSX Highstock is free to use, however Highcharts itself requires a license for commercial use. Highcharts license FAQs.

Getting started

The intention of this library is to provide a very thin abstraction of Highcharts using React components. This has been achieved by passing Highcharts configuration options as component props.

In the vast majority of cases, the name of the configuration option, and the name of the component prop are the same.

Example

<Tooltip /> component

<Tooltip padding={10} hideDelay={250} shape="square" split />

This corresponds to the Highcharts' tooltip configuration of

tooltip: {
  enabled: true, // This is assumed when component is mounted
  padding: 10,
  hideDelay: 250,
  shape: 'square',
  split: true
}

We aim to pass all configuration options using the same name, so we use Highcharts' documentation to figure out how to achieve the same with React JSX Highcharts.

Note:

There are two exceptions to the above;

Exception 1

Where Highcharts events are concerned - instead of passing events as an object, we use the React convention onEventName.

Example

<SplineSeries id="my-series" data={myData} onHide={this.handleHide} onShow={this.handleShow} />

This would correspond to the Highcharts configuration

series: [{
  type: 'spline',
  id: 'my-series',
  data: myData,
  events: { hide: this.handleHide, show: this.handleShow }
}]

Exception 2

text configuration options are passed as a React child

Example

<Title>Some Text Here</Title>

This would correspond to the Highcharts configuration

title: {
  text: 'Some Text Here'
}

Example

// import Highcharts from 'highcharts/highstock' - Import Highstock from Highcharts

render () {
  return (
    <HighchartsStockChart>
      <Chart onClick={this.handleClick} zoomType="x" />

      <Title>Highstocks Example</Title>

      <Legend>
        <Legend.Title>Key</Legend.Title>
      </Legend>

      <RangeSelector>
        <RangeSelector.Button count={1} type="day">1d</RangeSelector.Button>
        <RangeSelector.Button count={7} type="day">7d</RangeSelector.Button>
        <RangeSelector.Button count={1} type="month">1m</RangeSelector.Button>
        <RangeSelector.Button type="all">All</RangeSelector.Button>
        <RangeSelector.Input boxBorderColor="#7cb5ec" />
      </RangeSelector>

      <Tooltip />

      <XAxis>
        <XAxis.Title>Time</XAxis.Title>
      </XAxis>

      <YAxis>
        <YAxis.Title>Price</YAxis.Title>
        <AreaSplineSeries id="profit" name="Profit" data={data1} />
      </YAxis>

      <YAxis opposite>
        <YAxis.Title>Social Buzz</YAxis.Title>
        <SplineSeries id="twitter" name="Twitter mentions" data={data2} />
      </YAxis>

      <Navigator>
        <Navigator.Series seriesId="profit" />
        <Navigator.Series seriesId="twitter" />
      </Navigator>
    </HighchartsStockChart>
  );
}

// Provide Highcharts (Highstock) object for library to interact with
export default withHighcharts(MyComponent, Highcharts);

Demos

See here

Documentation

In progress... see here.

Upgrading from 2.x to 3.x

For the vast majority of cases, if your chart works in v2 of React JSX Highstock it should work in v3 without any required changes.

Ok, so what about the minority of cases?

Dropped React 15 support

v3 is built on top of the new Context API added in React 16.3, using the fantastic mini-create-react-context polyfill for previous React 16 versions.

While polyfills for React 15 exist, I want to minimise the amount of use cases supported, going forward.

Updates to the Higher Order components (Providers)

This is an advanced feature, but if this impacts you, see the guide here

Upgrading from 1.x to 2.x

See the guide here

Changelog

As of 3.x you are no longer required to use IDs for Axis, Series and PlotLines/Bands

As of 2.1.0 Highcharts 6 is supported

As of 2.x you are required to use the withHighcharts HOC to inject the Highcharts object (see below)

As of 1.2.0 React JSX Highstock supports using Immutable.js data structures as Series data.

Common issues

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'stockChart' of undefined

You are probably importing Highcharts rather than Highstock. Change you Highcharts import to...

import Highcharts from 'highcharts/highstock';

Highcharts error #17

You likely need to add an extra Highcharts module to support the requested series type, this is usually Highcharts more.

import Highcharts from 'highcharts/highstock';
import addHighchartsMore from 'highcharts/highcharts-more';

addHighchartsMore(Highcharts);

More info

See here