a_web VS Chart.js

As mentioned earlier, we will be continuing from a previous blog repo about Webpack basics (optimized branch), so we keep this blog shorter and only include the important details. We had already set up webpack to work well with loaders like post-css and babel. We will only add @babel/preset-react as a dev dependency, update the babel.config.js presets to include this, update webpack.config.js to resolve both .js and .jsx files extension and of course do some cleanup, including deleting files that were specific to that blog, as well as updating the entry and output values (webpack.config.js) to match what we have in the *.libraries.yml.

Our blog is about improvement, so it's better if we start with something to improve upon.I went ahead and made an app and hosted it on heroku, also pushed its code to github (branch name: unoptimized). The final code is also available on github (branch name: optimized).

ChartsJS for inspiring me with the pie chart.

Most of frontend libraries are made with Vanilla JS. An example of library that you might frequently use is "Chart.js". But React is not compatible with Chart.js so here it comes "React-chartjs-2" A wrapper library to work with Chart.js in React ecosystem. Oh you want to use "three.js" for some cool 3D? you will need "React-three/fiber". In my case, I need to implement "telegram-web-app", not so fast, I have to create my own wrapper to be able to use it.

Chart.js

Chart.js is a free, open-source JavaScript library for data visualization, which supports eight chart types: bar, line, area, pie, bubble, radar, polar and scatter. It's licensed under the permissive MIT license and is renowned for being flexible, lightweight, easy to use and extendible.

They are images so it could be any number of things, datawrapper, charts.js, d3.js to name a few options.

Charts.js for creating diagrams

Connie Leung wrote a tutorial to demonstrate how these new hooks work, integrating an Angular app with the Chart.js library: "DOM reading and writing with new lifecycle hooks in Angular"

Thanks to all who participated in our 2023 Self-Host User Survey! Below is a link to the results, which we've visualized using Chart.js.

Chart.js

I used chart.js [0], but I don't necessarily endorse it - it's just what I knew how to use quickly. I usually try to keep my posts free from javascript, and could have used a different tool that gives me SVG data or images.

You can see the code that's generating these charts here: https://github.com/jamesbvaughan/jamesbvaughan.com/blob/main...

[0] https://www.chartjs.org/