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Table of Contents

  • Installation
  • Usage
    • Extend the default behavior
  • Backward Compatibility promise

Symfony UX Chart.js

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Symfony UX Chart.js

Symfony UX Chart.js is a Symfony bundle integrating the Chart.js library in Symfony applications. It is part of the Symfony UX initiative.

Installation

Before you start, make sure you have Symfony UX configured in your app.

Then, install this bundle using Composer and Symfony Flex:

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$ composer require symfony/ux-chartjs

# Don't forget to install the JavaScript dependencies as well and compile
$ npm install --force
$ npm run watch

# or use yarn
$ yarn install --force
$ yarn watch

Also make sure you have at least version 3.0 of @symfony/stimulus-bridge in your package.json file.

Usage

To use Symfony UX Chart.js, inject the ChartBuilderInterface service and create charts in PHP:

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// ...
use Symfony\UX\Chartjs\Builder\ChartBuilderInterface;
use Symfony\UX\Chartjs\Model\Chart;

class HomeController extends AbstractController
{
    #[Route('/', name: 'app_homepage')]
    public function index(ChartBuilderInterface $chartBuilder): Response
    {
        $chart = $chartBuilder->createChart(Chart::TYPE_LINE);

        $chart->setData([
            'labels' => ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July'],
            'datasets' => [
                [
                    'label' => 'My First dataset',
                    'backgroundColor' => 'rgb(255, 99, 132)',
                    'borderColor' => 'rgb(255, 99, 132)',
                    'data' => [0, 10, 5, 2, 20, 30, 45],
                ],
            ],
        ]);

        $chart->setOptions([
            'scales' => [
                'y' => [
                    'suggestedMin' => 0,
                    'suggestedMax' => 100,
                ],
            ],
        ]);

        return $this->render('home/index.html.twig', [
            'chart' => $chart,
        ]);
    }
}

All options and data are provided as-is to Chart.js. You can read Chart.js documentation to discover them all.

Once created in PHP, a chart can be displayed using Twig if installed (requires Symfony Webpack Encore):

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{{ render_chart(chart) }}

{# You can pass HTML attributes as a second argument to add them on the <canvas> tag #}
{{ render_chart(chart, {'class': 'my-chart'}) }}

Extend the default behavior

Symfony UX Chart.js allows you to extend its default behavior using a custom Stimulus controller:

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// mychart_controller.js

import { Controller } from '@hotwired/stimulus';

export default class extends Controller {
    connect() {
        this.element.addEventListener('chartjs:pre-connect', this._onPreConnect);
        this.element.addEventListener('chartjs:connect', this._onConnect);
    }

    disconnect() {
        // You should always remove listeners when the controller is disconnected to avoid side effects
        this.element.removeEventListener('chartjs:pre-connect', this._onPreConnect);
        this.element.removeEventListener('chartjs:connect', this._onConnect);
    }

    _onPreConnect(event) {
        // The chart is not yet created
        console.log(event.detail.options); // You can access the chart options using the event details

        // For instance you can format Y axis
        event.detail.options.scales = {
            yAxes: [
                {
                    ticks: {
                        callback: function (value, index, values) {
                            /* ... */
                        },
                    },
                },
            ],
        };
    }

    _onConnect(event) {
        // The chart was just created
        console.log(event.detail.chart); // You can access the chart instance using the event details

        // For instance you can listen to additional events
        event.detail.chart.options.onHover = (mouseEvent) => {
            /* ... */
        };
        event.detail.chart.options.onClick = (mouseEvent) => {
            /* ... */
        };
    }
}

Then in your render call, add your controller as an HTML attribute:

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{{ render_chart(chart, {'data-controller': 'mychart'}) }}

Backward Compatibility promise

This bundle aims at following the same Backward Compatibility promise as the Symfony framework: https://symfony.com/doc/current/contributing/code/bc.html.

This work, including the code samples, is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.
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