recharts-to-png

A wrapper around html2canvas that will convert any HTML element to an image with the useGenerateImage hook. This is a universal function that will work with any HTML element; it is not specific to Recharts.

Recharts Compatibility

This library was originally written specifically to transform Recharts charts to PNG, via useCurrentPng and CurrentPng.

Version 3 of Recharts included several breaking changes, affecting compatibility with this library. If using you're planning to use either useCurrentPng or CurrentPng directly with recharts components, make sure to the use the specified versions together:

recharts-to-png	recharts v2	recharts v3
2.X	✅	❌
3.X	❌	✅

TL;DR: use v2 with v2, and v3 with v3

recharts-to-png was inspired by these Stack Overflow questions and answers from peter.bartos and AlbertMunichMar.

Special thanks to HarmNullix for helping to improve the performance of this library.

Install

npm install recharts-to-png

Demo

Hooks

See the demo here.

It implements useGenerateImage and useCurrentPng with different chart types and file-saver.

Class Components

For usage with class components, implement CurrentPng component with render props.

Usage

useGenerateImage

useGenerateImage is a React hook that returns a tuple. The first parameter is a promise that will return a string if the image is valid. The second parameter is an object with two properties: ref, which is required to be attached to the target HTML element, and isLoading, which is optional and changes state from false to true while the image is being generated.

You can pass arguments to useGenerateImage:

options?: HTML2CanvasOptions;
quality?: number;
type?: string;

// Implement useGenerateImage to get an image of any HTML element
const [getDivJpeg, { ref }] = useGenerateImage<HTMLDivElement>({
  quality: 0.8,
  type: 'image/jpeg',
});

const handleDivDownload = useCallback(async () => {
  const jpeg = await getDivJpeg();
  if (jpeg) {
    FileSaver.saveAs(jpeg, 'div-element.jpeg');
  }
}, [getDivJpeg]);

return <div ref={ref}>{/* content goes here */}</div>;

useCurrentPng

useCurrentPng is a React hook that returns a tuple. The first parameter is a promise that will return a string if the PNG is valid. The second parameter is an object with two properties: ref, which is required to be attached to the target Recharts component, and isLoading, which is optional and changes state from false to true while the PNG is being generated.

function MyApp(props) {
  // useCurrentPng usage (isLoading is optional)
  const [getPng, { ref, isLoading }] = useCurrentPng();

  // Can also pass in options for html2canvas
  // const [getPng, { ref }] = useCurrentPng({ backgroundColor: '#000' });

  const handleDownload = useCallback(async () => {
    const png = await getPng();

    // Verify that png is not undefined
    if (png) {
      // Download with FileSaver
      FileSaver.saveAs(png, 'myChart.png');
    }
  }, [getPng]);

  return (
    <>
      <ComposedChart data={props.data} ref={ref}>
        <XAxis dataKey="name" />
        <YAxis />
        <Tooltip />
        <Legend />
        <CartesianGrid stroke="#f5f5f5" />
        <Area type="monotone" dataKey="amt" fill="#8884d8" stroke="#8884d8" />
        <Bar dataKey="pv" barSize={20} fill="#413ea0" />
        <Line type="monotone" dataKey="uv" stroke="#ff7300" />
        <Brush dataKey="name" height={30} stroke="#8884d8" />
      </ComposedChart>
      <br/>
      <button onClick={handleDownload}>
        {isLoading ? 'Downloading...' : 'Download Chart'}
      </button>
    </>
  );

Passing a callback to canvas.toBlob()

In addition to returning a string, the promises also accept an optional callback that will be passed to canvas.toBlob(), allowing you to add your own custom logic.

export type UseGenerateImage<T extends HTMLElement = HTMLDivElement> = [
  (callback?: BlobCallback) => Promise<string | undefined>,
  {
    isLoading: boolean;
    ref: React.MutableRefObject<T | null>;
  },
];

Here's an example using the callback to copy the image to the clipboard:

const [getDivPng, { ref }] = useGenerateImage<HTMLDivElement>({
  type: 'image/png',
});

const handleDivCopyToClipboard = useCallback(async () => {
  // Pass in optional callback for canvas.toBlob
  await getDivPng((blob) => {
    blob &&
      navigator.clipboard.write([
        new ClipboardItem({
          // The key is determined dynamically based on the blob's type.
          [blob.type]: blob,
        }),
      ]);
  });
}, [getDivPng]);

return <div ref={ref}>{/* content goes here */}</div>;

CurrentPng

Per user request, CurrentPng implements the same functionality as useCurrentPng but as a class component using render props. See background in this issue.

// index.tsx
ReactDOM.render(
  <CurrentPng>{(props) => <RenderPropsExample {...props} />}</CurrentPng>,
  rootElement
);

// RenderPropsExample.tsx
export default class RenderPropsExample extends React.Component<CurrentPngProps, State> {
  state: State = {
    chartData: [],
  };

  componentDidMount() {
    this.setState({
      chartData: getData(100),
    });
  }

  handleDownload = async () => {
    const png = await this.props.getPng();

    if (png) {
      FileSaver.saveAs(png, 'chart.png');
    }
  };

  render() {
    return (
      <>
        <h4>
          <code>Example: Download chart with React.Component Render Props </code>
        </h4>
        <ResponsiveContainer width="100%" height={300}>
          <ComposedChart data={this.state.chartData} ref={this.props.chartRef}>
            <XAxis dataKey="name" />
            <YAxis />
            <Tooltip />
            <Legend />
            <CartesianGrid stroke="#f5f5f5" />
            <Area type="monotone" dataKey="amt" fill="#8884d8" stroke="#8884d8" />
            <Bar dataKey="pv" barSize={20} fill="#413ea0" />
            <Line type="monotone" dataKey="uv" stroke="#ff7300" />
            <Brush dataKey="name" height={30} stroke="#8884d8" />
          </ComposedChart>
        </ResponsiveContainer>
        <br />
        <button disabled={this.props.isLoading} onClick={() => this.handleDownload()}>
          {this.props.isLoading ? (
            <span className="download-button-content">
              <i className="gg-spinner" />
              <span className="download-button-text">
                <code>Downloading...</code>
              </span>
            </span>
          ) : (
            <span className="download-button-content">
              <i className="gg-software-download" />
              <span className="download-button-text">
                <code>Download Chart</code>
              </span>
            </span>
          )}
        </button>
      </>
    );
  }
}

Contributing/Developing

1. Fork/clone the repository

   • How to contribute to a project on Github

2. Install dependencies

   npm i
   

3. Build recharts-to-png in watch mode

   npm run watch
   

4. Start the demo to observe your changes

   npm run demo:app
   

5. Ensure all tests pass

   npm run test