React Chart Container

React Chart Container is a React component that can wrap chart elements and handle it's init, update and resize event properly.

Why you need React Chart Container?

If you render a chart on an element like div with some library like ECharts, you'll have to consider all the concepts bellow:

• init a chart instance and render it on the target element
• handle resizing of the chart when size of any of the ancestral elements changing or the browser window size changing
• handle updatingof the chart when data or chart setting changing
• handle loading status when fetching chart data
• destroy chart instance at proper time

it's really annoying to do all the things.

React Chart Container can help you with all the stuff above.

Usage

A typical example is as bellow:

import { FC, useEffect, useState } from 'react'
import * as echarts from 'echarts/core'
import { LineChart } from 'echarts/charts'
import { CanvasRenderer } from 'echarts/renderers'
import { GridComponent } from 'echarts/components'
import { TimelineData, getMockData } from './mock-data'
import { ReactChartContainer, useReactChartContainer } from '../react-chart-container'
import k from './k'

echarts.use([LineChart, CanvasRenderer, GridComponent])

const Spin: FC = () => <div>Loading...</div>

function transformData (data: TimelineData) {
  return data.values.map(line => {
    return {
      type: 'line',
      name: line.name,
      id: line.alias + ':::' + line.name,
      data: line.data.map((point, index) => {
        if (!data.timestamps[index]) return null
        return {
          name: data.timestamps[index],
          value: [data.timestamps[index], point]
        }
      })
    }
  })
}

function App () {
  const [mockData, setMockData] = useState(getMockData())

  const { elRef, onReady, onResize } = useReactChartContainer<echarts.ECharts, TimelineData, string>({
    init: (el, d, _s) => {
      // console.log('settings in init function:', s)
      const instance = echarts.init(el)

      instance.setOption({
        xAxis: {
          type: 'time'
        },
        yAxis: {
          type: 'value',
          axisLabel: { formatter: (v: number) => k(v) }
        },
        grid: {
          show: true,
          left: 56,
          bottom: 24,
          right: 8,
          top: 28
        },
        series: transformData(d)
      }, { lazyUpdate: true })

      return instance
    },
    resize: (graphRef) => graphRef.current?.resize(),
    update: (graphRef, d, _s) => {
      // console.log('settings in update function:', s)
      graphRef.current?.setOption({
        series: transformData(d)
      }, { lazyUpdate: true, replaceMerge: 'series' })
    },
    destroy: (graphRef, _el) => graphRef.current?.dispose()
  }, mockData as TimelineData, 'hello')

  useEffect(() => {
    window.setInterval(() => {
      setMockData(getMockData())
    }, 3000)
  }, [])

  return (
    <div >
      <ReactChartContainer
        onReady={onReady}
        onResize={onResize}
        spinIcon={<Spin />}
        loading={false}>
        <div ref={elRef} style={{ height: 400 }}></div>
      </ReactChartContainer>
    </div>
  )
}

export default App

API

ReactChartContainer

prop	type	required/default	description
onReady	(size: Rect) => void	-	the callback of container ready
onResize	(size: Rect) => void	-	the callback of container resizing
loading	boolean	false	indecate loading status
className	string	''	class name

useReactChartContainer

const useReactChartContainer: <
  GraphType,
  Data,
  Settings = undefined
>(
  chart: Chart<GraphType, Data, Settings>,
  data: Data,
  settings: Settings
) => {
  elRef: MutableRefObject<null>;
  graphRef: GraphRef<GraphType>;
  onResize: () => void;
  onReady: () => void;
}

interface Chart<GraphType, Data, Settings = undefined> {
  init (element: HTMLDivElement, data: Data, settings: Settings): GraphType
  resize (graphRef: GraphRef<GraphType>, data: Data, settings: Settings): void
  update (graphRef: GraphRef<GraphType>, data: Data, settings: Settings): void
  destroy (graphRef: GraphRef<GraphType>, element: HTMLDivElement): void
}

export type GraphRef<GraphType> = MutableRefObject<GraphType | null>