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Add Annotations

Annotations are graphical elements (different types of shapes, custom text, and so on) that you can render on your chart to make it more informative, while making it visually appealing.

In this article we'll create a Spline chart and add annotations using react-fusioncharts component. A spline chart using annotations to highlight a particular anchor along with text is shown below:

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{
    "chart": {
        "caption": "Average Monthly Temperature in Texas",
        "yAxisName": "Average Monthly Temperature",
        "anchorradius": "5",
        "plotToolText": "Average temperature in $label is <b>$dataValue</b>",
        "showHoverEffect": "1",
        "showvalues": "0",
        "numberSuffix": "°C",
        "theme": "fusion",
        "anchorBgColor": "#72D7B2",
        "paletteColors": "#72D7B2"
    },
    "annotations": {
        "groups": [
            {
                "id": "anchor-highlight",
                "items": [
                    {
                        "id": "high-star",
                        "type": "circle",
                        "x": "$dataset.0.set.7.x",
                        "y": "$dataset.0.set.7.y",
                        "radius": "12",
                        "color": "#cc0000",
                        "border": "2",
                        "borderColor": "#0075c2"
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "label",
                        "type": "text",
                        "text": "Hottest Month",
                        "fillcolor": "#0075c2",
                        "rotate": "90",
                        "x": "$dataset.0.set.7.x+75",
                        "y": "$dataset.0.set.7.y-2"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "label": "Jan",
            "value": "1"
        },
        {
            "label": "Feb",
            "value": "5"
        },
        {
            "label": "Mar",
            "value": "10"
        },
        {
            "label": "Apr",
            "value": "12"
        },
        {
            "label": "May",
            "value": "14"
        },
        {
            "label": "Jun",
            "value": "16"
        },
        {
            "label": "Jul",
            "value": "20"
        },
        {
            "label": "Aug",
            "value": "22"
        },
        {
            "label": "Sep",
            "value": "20"
        },
        {
            "label": "Oct",
            "value": "16"
        },
        {
            "label": "Nov",
            "value": "7"
        },
        {
            "label": "Dec",
            "value": "2"
        }
    ]
}

The full code of the above sample is given below:

// Step 1 - Include react
import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";

// Step 2 - Include the react-fusioncharts component
import ReactFC from "react-fusioncharts";

// Step 3 - Include the fusioncharts library
import FusionCharts from "fusioncharts";

// Step 4 - Include the chart type
import Column2D from "fusioncharts/fusioncharts.charts";
import PowerCharts from "fusioncharts/fusioncharts.powercharts";

// Step 5 - Include the theme as fusion
import FusionTheme from "fusioncharts/themes/fusioncharts.theme.fusion";

// Step 6 - Adding the chart and theme as dependency to the core fusioncharts
ReactFC.fcRoot(FusionCharts, Column2D, FusionTheme);

// Step 7 - Creating the JSON object to store the chart configurations
const chartConfigs = {
    type: "line",
    width: "700",
    height: "400",
    dataFormat: "json",
    dataSource: {
        chart: {
            caption: "Average Monthly Temperature in Texas",
            yAxisName: "Average Monthly Temperature",
            anchorradius: "5",
            plotToolText: "Average temperature in $label is <b>$dataValue</b>",
            showHoverEffect: "1",
            showvalues: "0",
            numberSuffix: "°C",
            theme: "fusion",
            anchorBgColor: "#72D7B2",
            paletteColors: "#72D7B2"
        },
        annotations: {
            groups: [{
                id: "anchor-highlight",
                items: [{
                        id: "high-star",
                        type: "circle",
                        x: "$dataset.0.set.7.x",
                        y: "$dataset.0.set.7.y",
                        radius: "12",
                        color: "#cc0000",
                        border: "2",
                        borderColor: "#0075c2"
                    }, {
                        id: "label",
                        type: "text",
                        text: "Hottest Month",
                        fillcolor: "#0075c2",
                        rotate: "90",
                        x: "$dataset.0.set.7.x+75",
                        y: "$dataset.0.set.7.y-2"
                    }
                ]
            }]
        },
        data: [{
                label: "Jan",
                value: "1"
            }, {
                label: "Feb",
                value: "5"
            }, {
                label: "Mar",
                value: "10"
            }, {
                label: "Apr",
                value: "12"
            }, {
                label: "May",
                value: "14"
            }, {
                label: "Jun",
                value: "16"
            }, {
                label: "Jul",
                value: "20"
            }, {
                label: "Aug",
                value: "22"
            }, {
                label: "Sep",
                value: "20"
            }, {
                label: "Oct",
                value: "16"
            }, {
                label: "Nov",
                value: "7"
            }, {
                label: "Dec",
                value: "2"
            }
        ]
    }
};

// Step 9 - Creating the DOM element to pass the react-fusioncharts component
export default class App extends React.Component {
    render() {
        return <ReactFC {
            ...chartConfigs
        } />;
    }
}

The above chart has been rendered using the following steps:

  1. Include the necessary libraries and components using import. For example, react-fusioncharts, fusioncharts, etc.

  2. Store the chart configuration in a JSON object. In the JSON object:

    • Set the chart type as column2d. Find the complete list of chart types with their respective alias here.
    • Set the width and height of the chart in pixels.
    • Set the dataFormat as JSON.
    • Embed the json data as the value of dataSource.
    • Create an annotations object in the dataSource, to specify the cosmetics and functionalities of the annotation.

  3. Create a DOM element and the react-fusioncharts component is passed directly to the ReactDOM.render() method.