How to create bar chart in react using material UI and Devexpress ?

Data visualization is an essential aspect of many web applications. To Create a Bar Chart in React using material UI and Devexpress is a commonly used visualization technique to represent data in a visually appealing and understandable format. I

DevExpress: DevExpress is a package for controlling and building the user interface of Windows, Mobile, and other applications.

Bar Charts: A bar chart is a pictorial representation of data that presents categorical data with rectangular bars with heights or lengths proportional to the values that they represent. In other words, it is the pictorial representation of the dataset. These data sets contain the numerical values of variables that represent the length or height.

Prerequisites

• React JS
• Material UI 

Approach

To create a Bar Chart in React using material UI and DevExpress, we will install the dev express and MUI packages first. Then create dummy data in the form of an array of objects with numeric values and represent them on the Bar chart using the Chart component and respective attributes.

Steps for Create React Application And Installing Module:

Step 1: Create a React application using the following command.

npx create-react-app foldername

Step 2: After creating your project folder i.e. folder name, move to it using the following command.

cd foldername

Step 3: After creating the ReactJS application, install the required modules using the following command.

npm i --save @devexpress/dx-react-core @devexpress/dx-react-chart @material-ui/core 
                        @devexpress/dx-react-chart-material-ui

Project Structure:

Project Structure

The updated dependencies in package.json file will look like:

"dependencies": {
        "@devexpress/dx-react-chart": "^4.0.5",
        "@devexpress/dx-react-chart-material-ui": "^4.0.5",
        "@devexpress/dx-react-core": "^4.0.5",
        "@material-ui/core": "^4.12.4",
        "@testing-library/jest-dom": "^5.17.0",
        "@testing-library/react": "^13.4.0",
        "@testing-library/user-event": "^13.5.0",
        "react": "^18.2.0",
        "react-dom": "^18.2.0",
        "react-scripts": "5.0.1",
        "web-vitals": "^2.1.4"
}

Example: Thhis example implements chart component form the dev express to visualise the data as a Bar chart.

Javascript

// Filename - App.js

import React from "react";
import Paper from "@material-ui/core/Paper";
import {
    ArgumentAxis,
    ValueAxis,
    Chart,
    BarSeries,
} from "@devexpress/dx-react-chart-material-ui";

const App = () => {
    // Sample data
    const data = [
        { argument: "Monday", value: 30 },
        { argument: "Tuesday", value: 20 },
        { argument: "Wednesday", value: 10 },
        { argument: "Thursday", value: 50 },
        { argument: "Friday", value: 60 },
    ];
    return (
        <Paper>
            <Chart data={data}>
                <ArgumentAxis />
                <ValueAxis />

                <BarSeries
                    valueField="value"
                    argumentField="argument"
                />
            </Chart>
        </Paper>
    );
};

export default App;

Step to Run Application: Run the application using the following command from the root directory of the project:

npm start

Output: Now open your browser and go to http://localhost:3000/, you will see the following output:

Output