victory-chart

What is victory-chart?

Victory-chart is a composable charting library for React. It provides a set of modular charting components that can be combined to create complex data visualizations. The library is built on top of D3.js and offers a variety of chart types, including bar charts, line charts, pie charts, and more.

What are victory-chart's main functionalities?

Line Chart

This code demonstrates how to create a simple line chart using Victory-chart. The VictoryLine component is used to render the line chart within a VictoryChart container.

import React from 'react';
import { VictoryChart, VictoryLine } from 'victory';

const data = [
  { x: 1, y: 2 },
  { x: 2, y: 3 },
  { x: 3, y: 5 },
  { x: 4, y: 4 },
  { x: 5, y: 7 }
];

const LineChart = () => (
  <VictoryChart>
    <VictoryLine data={data} />
  </VictoryChart>
);

export default LineChart;

Bar Chart

This code demonstrates how to create a bar chart using Victory-chart. The VictoryBar component is used to render the bar chart within a VictoryChart container.

import React from 'react';
import { VictoryChart, VictoryBar } from 'victory';

const data = [
  { x: 'A', y: 2 },
  { x: 'B', y: 3 },
  { x: 'C', y: 5 },
  { x: 'D', y: 4 },
  { x: 'E', y: 7 }
];

const BarChart = () => (
  <VictoryChart>
    <VictoryBar data={data} />
  </VictoryChart>
);

export default BarChart;

Pie Chart

This code demonstrates how to create a pie chart using Victory-chart. The VictoryPie component is used to render the pie chart.

import React from 'react';
import { VictoryPie } from 'victory';

const data = [
  { x: 'Cats', y: 35 },
  { x: 'Dogs', y: 40 },
  { x: 'Birds', y: 25 }
];

const PieChart = () => (
  <VictoryPie data={data} />
);

export default PieChart;

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nivo

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README

VictoryChart

A flexible charting component for React. VictoryChart composes other victory components into reusable charts. Acting as a coordinator rather than a stand-alone component, VictoryChart reconciles props such as domain and scale for child components, and provides a set of sensible defaults.

VictoryChart includes:

• VictoryAxis
• VictoryArea
• VictoryBar
• VictoryLine
• VictoryScatter

API Documentation

Detailed documentation and interactive examples can be found at http://formidable.com/open-source/victory/victory-chart/

Development

# Run the demo app server
$ npm start

# Open the demo app
$ open http://localhost:3000

# Run tests
$ npm test

For more on the development environment, see DEVELOPMENT in the project builder archetype.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING in the project builder archetype.

Caveats

Victory requires npm v3 and Node > 0.10 for development and git installs

IMPORTANT

This project is in a pre-release state. We're hard at work fixing bugs and improving the API. Be prepared for breaking changes!