Creating Charts Using the React-FusionCharts Plugin

Prerequisites

The React-FusionCharts plugin uses the FusionCharts component to create and configure charts using ReactJS.

This article talks about how you can:

Create a simple chart using the React-FusionCharts plugin
Provide chart attributes using separate objects
Fetch chart data from an external file

Creating a Simple Chart Using the React-FusionCharts Plugin

For creating charts, the FusionCharts component can be:

Passed directly to the React.render() method

Passed as a part of another ReactJS component

Passing the `FusionCharts` Component to the `React.render()` Method

Take a look at the column 2D chart shown below:

FusionCharts will load here..

The code to configure this chart that will be passed to the FusionCharts component is given below:

var salesChartConfigs = {
    width: "600",
    height: "400",
    type: "column2d",
	dataSource: {
		chart: {
	        caption: "Harry's SuperMart",
	        subCaption: "Top 5 stores in last month by revenue",
	        numberPrefix: "$",
	        theme: "fint"
	    },
	    data: [{
	        label: "Bakersfield Central",
	        value: "880000"
	    }, {
	        label: "Garden Groove harbour",
	        value: "730000"
	    }, {
	        label: "Los Angeles Topanga",
	        value: "590000"
	    }, {
	        label: "Compton-Rancho Dom",
	        value: "520000"
	    }, {
	        label: "Daly City Serramonte",
	        value: "330000"
	    }]
	}
};

Now, to render this chart, the FusionCharts component, used as a tag, will be passed directly to the React.render() method, as shown in the code below:

React.render(
    <react_fc.FusionCharts {...salesChartConfigs} />,
    document.getElementById('sales-chart-container')
);

Passing the `FusionCharts` Component as a Part of Another ReactJS Component

To render a chart by passing the FusionCharts component as a part of another ReactJS component, this is how the code will change:

var SalesChart = React.createClass({
    /** ReactJS code **/

    render: function () {
        return (

            /** FusionCharts Component --- Sales Chart **/
            <react_fc.FusionCharts {...salesChartConfigs} />

            /** Other ReactJS component(s) **/
            <..... />
            <..... />

        );
    }
});

Providing Attributes Using Separate Objects

An alternate way to create charts using the React-FusionCharts plugin is by creating separate objects for the chart, categories, and dataset configurations.

Take a look at the multi-series line chart shown below:

FusionCharts will load here..

The code to render this chart, using the alternate method, is given below:

var attrs = {
    "caption": "Sales Comparison: 2013 versus 2014",
    "subCaption": "Harry's SuperMart",
    "numberprefix": "$",
    "plotgradientcolor": "",
    "bgcolor": "FFFFFF",
    "showalternatehgridcolor": "0",
    "divlinecolor": "CCCCCC",
    "showvalues": "0",
    "showcanvasborder": "0",
    "canvasborderalpha": "0",
    "canvasbordercolor": "CCCCCC",
    "canvasborderthickness": "1",
    "yaxismaxvalue": "30000",
    "captionpadding": "30",
    "linethickness": "3",
    "yaxisvaluespadding": "15",
    "legendshadow": "0",
    "legendborderalpha": "0",
    "palettecolors": "#f8bd19,#008ee4,#33bdda,#e44a00,#6baa01,#583e78",
    "showborder": "0"
};

var categories = [{
    "category": [{
        "label": "Jan"
    }, {
        "label": "Feb"
    }, {
        "label": "Mar"
    }, {
        "label": "Apr"
    }, {
        "label": "May"
    }, {
        "label": "Jun"
    }, {
        "label": "Jul"
    }, {
        "label": "Aug"
    }, {
        "label": "Sep"
    }, {
        "label": "Oct"
    }, {
        "label": "Nov"
    }, {
        "label": "Dec"
    }]
}];

var dataset = [{
        "seriesname": "2013",
        "data": [{
            "value": "22400"
        }, {
            "value": "24800"
        }, {
            "value": "21800"
        }, {
            "value": "21800"
        }, {
            "value": "24600"
        }, {
            "value": "27600"
        }, {
            "value": "26800"
        }, {
            "value": "27700"
        }, {
            "value": "23700"
        }, {
            "value": "25900"
        }, {
            "value": "26800"
        }, {
            "value": "24800"
        }]
    },
    {
        "seriesname": "2012",
        "data": [{
            "value": "10000"
        }, {
            "value": "11500"
        }, {
            "value": "12500"
        }, {
            "value": "15000"
        }, {
            "value": "16000"
        }, {
            "value": "17600"
        }, {
            "value": "18800"
        }, {
            "value": "19700"
        }, {
            "value": "21700"
        }, {
            "value": "21900"
        }, {
            "value": "22900"
        }, {
            "value": "20800"
        }]
    }
];

React.render(
    <react_fc.FusionCharts
		width="600"
		height="400"
		type="msline"
		chart=attrs
		categories=categories
		dataset=dataset />,
    document.getElementById('chart-container')
);

To know how a multi-series line chart can be created using the conventional JSON code, click here.

Fetching Chart Data from an External File

The FusionCharts component can be used to fetch chart data stored in an external .json or .xml file. To do this, specify the relative path to the external source file in the HTML code for the chart.

The attributes used to specify the type and URL of the external file are:

Attribute	Description
`dataformat`	Specifies the type of data (JSON or XML) that will be fetched to render the chart. If JSON data is used, set this attribute to jsonurl. If XML data is used, set it to xmlurl.
`datasource`	Specifies the relative path of the source file, from which chart data will be fetched.

The code to render a chart from an external .json file is given below:

React.render(
    <react_fc.FusionCharts
		dataformat="jsonurl"
    	datasource="data/data.json"
    	type="column2d"
    	width="600"
    	height="400" />,
    document.getElementById('chart-container')
);

Depending on the chart configuration specified in the data.json file, the chart is rendered.