What is victory?
Victory is a collection of composable React components for building interactive data visualizations. It provides a wide range of chart types and is designed to be highly customizable and easy to use.
What are victory's main functionalities?
Line Chart
Victory allows you to create line charts easily. The code sample demonstrates how to create a simple line chart using VictoryLine and VictoryChart components.
const data = [
{ x: 1, y: 2 },
{ x: 2, y: 3 },
{ x: 3, y: 5 },
{ x: 4, y: 4 },
{ x: 5, y: 7 }
];
<VictoryChart>
<VictoryLine data={data} />
</VictoryChart>
Bar Chart
Victory makes it simple to create bar charts. The code sample shows how to create a bar chart using VictoryBar and VictoryChart components.
const data = [
{ x: 'A', y: 2 },
{ x: 'B', y: 3 },
{ x: 'C', y: 5 },
{ x: 'D', y: 4 },
{ x: 'E', y: 7 }
];
<VictoryChart>
<VictoryBar data={data} />
</VictoryChart>
Pie Chart
VictoryPie component allows you to create pie charts. The code sample demonstrates how to create a pie chart with different categories.
const data = [
{ x: 'Cats', y: 35 },
{ x: 'Dogs', y: 40 },
{ x: 'Birds', y: 25 }
];
<VictoryPie data={data} />
Scatter Plot
VictoryScatter component is used to create scatter plots. The code sample shows how to create a scatter plot using VictoryScatter and VictoryChart components.
const data = [
{ x: 1, y: 2 },
{ x: 2, y: 3 },
{ x: 3, y: 5 },
{ x: 4, y: 4 },
{ x: 5, y: 7 }
];
<VictoryChart>
<VictoryScatter data={data} />
</VictoryChart>
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Victory
Victory is an opinionated set of data visualization tools built in React. This repo aggregates all of the stable Victory components so they can be conveniently included.
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!
Including components:
Components can be included individually
import {VictroyLine, VictoryAxis} from "victory"
<VictoryLine/>
Or imported as a set:
import * as V from "victory"
<V.VictoryLine/>
Components
You can read about these Victory components via interactive docs!
Animation
Wrap any Victory component with VictoryAnimation and it will transition smoothly between states whenever data changes. VictoryAnimation relies on d3's interpolator, so it knows how to transitions between colors, dates, numbers, strings etc.
Development
Please see DEVELOPMENT
Contributing
Please see CONTRIBUTING