How to create line chart in react using material UI and DevExpress ?

Creating a line chart in React using material UI and DevExpress simply means creating a simple graph to show the relationship between two parameters.

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

Line Charts: Line charts are used to represent the relation between two data relationships X and relationships Y on a different axis. One of the axes of the plot represents the specific categories being compared, while the other axis represents the measured values corresponding to those categories.

Prerequisites

• React JS
• Material UI 

Approach

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

Steps to 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 list of dependencies after installing packages

"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:Used the chart component form teh dev express to visualise the data as a line chart.

Javascript

// Filename - App.js

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

const App = () => {
    // Sample data
    const data = [
        { x: 1, y: 30 },
        { x: 2, y: 40 },
        { x: 3, y: 5 },
        { x: 4, y: 2 },
        { x: 5, y: 21 },
    ];
    return (
        <Paper>
            <Chart data={data}>
                <ArgumentAxis />
                <ValueAxis />

                <LineSeries
                    valueField="y"
                    argumentField="x"
                />
            </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