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Welcome back to our Getting Started with KendoReact series! In the fifth and final entry in this series, Eric Bishard illustrates how to use the React Chart component from KendoReact and work with React Hooks. See what KendoReact can do for you, the React developer!

Back to the fourth post of the series, Customizing KendoReact Components.

 

We are going to add a React Chart directly below the the existing Grid component. The link I just gave you for the chart is a great place to get a better understanding of the different ways you can customize it. Now, when we want to add any type of chart (sprakline, pie, donut, whatever), we start by installing the KendoReact Chart package and another dependency called hammerjs

npm install @progress/kendo-react-charts hammerjs

One thing I want to do here is use the latest addition to the React library (Hooks), but we'll need to update our React packages to use 16.7 Alpha. Let's install that now:

npm install react@next react-dom@next

If you ever want to get the absolute latest bits from React, that's what you should run. Also, we will now see changes in our package.json from:

"dependencies": {
    [...]
    "hammerjs": "^2.0.8",
    "react": "^16.6.0",
    "react-dom": "^16.6.0",
    "react-scripts": "2.0.5"
  }
"dependencies": {
    [...]
    "hammerjs": "^2.0.8",
    "react": "^16.7.0-alpha.0",
    "react-dom": "^16.7.0-alpha.0",
    "react-scripts": "2.0.5"
  }

React Hooks give functional components in React the ability to work with React State, perform side effects to state change and tap into React Context. We will simply be using it to manage some simple state inside a functional component. This is what we as developers have wanted from React—it solves problematic issues with Classes and setState IMHO. It also allows you to get away from classes in the majority of situations you can run into while building components. If you can get your head around Hooks, you will have much less need for classes in React.

Instead of creating another hunk of HTML and components inside the App.js page, let's import a component and move our next block of code outside of the App.js page.

In React, this is as simple as creating a file—we'll call ours PieChartContainer.js and we will put some very basic functional component structure code in there:

export default function PieChartContainer() {
  return (
    <div>
      <span>KENDO PIE CHART</span>
    </div>
  );
}

In the App.js page, let's now add an import and bring the component into the JSX:

import PieChartContainer from './PieChartContainer';
...
<PieChartContainer />

Now we can work on bringing in the few imports we need for using Hooks and Kendo Chart component. As well, we will need the HTML that will replace the placeholder div we have in place now.

Here are the imports we will need:

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { Button } from '@progress/kendo-react-buttons';
import { Chart, ChartSeries, ChartSeriesItem } from '@progress/kendo-react-charts';
import 'hammerjs';

The first order of business inside the PieChartContainer functional component is to set up the default state and handlers for some inputs I'm going to place on the page. Each input will correspond to a state value, and we will have another state value that upon some event, we can update an array of all three pie chart series values. This object will be used eventually in our Pie Chart.

const [graphProtein, setGraphProtein] = useState(0);
const [graphCarbs, setGraphCarbs] = useState(0);
const [graphSugars, setGraphSugars] = useState(0);
const [seriesData, setSeriesData] = useState([
  graphProtein,
  graphCarbs,
  graphSugars
]);

const handleGraphProteinChange = (e) => {
  setGraphProtein(isNaN(e.target.value) ? 0 : e.target.value)
}
const handleGraphCarbsChange = (e) => {
  setGraphCarbs(isNaN(e.target.value) ? 0 : e.target.value)
}
const handleGraphSugarsChange = (e) => {
  setGraphSugars(isNaN(e.target.value) ? 0 : e.target.value)
}
const handleSeriesDataChange = (e) => {
  setSeriesData([graphProtein, graphCarbs, graphSugars])
}

We will also replace the span placeholder element on our page with the following code, which I created as a precursor to putting our chart on the page. I wanted to make sure I understood what I expected from the user and how I could take those inputs and translate them into a condensed array of each value to feed into the chart, this is just how I work things out when I'm manually prototyping:

<div>
  <p>Protein Amount: -
    <input value={graphProtein} onChange={handleGraphProteinChange} />
  </p>
  <p>Carb Amount: -
    <input value={graphCarbs} onChange={handleGraphCarbsChange} />
  </p>
  <p>Sugar Amount: -
    <input value={graphSugars} onChange={handleGraphSugarsChange} />
  </p>
  <Button primary={true} onClick={handleSeriesDataChange}>Update Pie</Button>
  <p>
    Protein Value is: {graphProtein}, 
    Carbs Value is: {graphCarbs}, 
    Sugars Value is: {graphSugars},
    Series Data is: {seriesData}
  </p>
</div>

Now let's drop in some basic code to get the chart displaying on the page, I took some code from the KendoReact Charts component example and modified to fit my needs:

<div className="food-graph">
  <Chart seriesDefaults={this.state.seriesDefaults} series={this.state.series}></Chart>
</div>

We need to pass some state into the chart. We will have a series and seriesDefault that we will bind to our properties on the state object.

I'm going to give you some more HTML to add directly above the chart and it's surrounding food-graph div and create a sibling div for food-graph-inputs. We're going to enable our users to add some numbers to three sections of our chart, each of which will be a pie chart to represent those numbers. This allows us to visualize the difference between the proteins, sugars and carbs from our grid.

<div className="food-graph-inputs">
  <p>Protein Amount: - 
    <input type="text" onChange={this.handleProteinChange} />
  </p>
  <p>Carb Amount: - 
    <input type="text" onChange={this.handleCarbChange} />
  </p>
  <p>Sugar Amount: - 
    <input type="text" onChange={this.handleSugarChange} />
  </p>
</div>

And with these changes made, we will need to update our state object to supply the default values for series, seriesDefault, graphProtein, graphCarb and graphSugar. Our state should end up looking like the object below:

this.state = {
      data: this.getNutrition(initialFilter),
      filter: initialFilter,
      habitId: 0,
      habitName: '',
      habitIteration: 0,
      habits: [],
      habitsOptions: [
        'Drink 1 cup of water',
        '1 Hour of Coding',
        '10 pushups',
        'Eat Your Fruits and veggies',
        '1 hour of Reading',
        '10 minutes of Meditation',
      ],
      series: [{data: [1,1,1]}],
      seriesDefaults: { type: 'pie'},
      graphProtein: 0,
      graphCarb: 0,
      graphSugar: 0
    }

We need a few functions to handle any changes to the protein, carb and sugar input changes, each will also need to call a handleGraphChange() function after setting their own state. Let's add those four functions now at the bottom of all of our function handlers.

// Chart Functions
  handleProteinChange = (event) => {
    this.setState({ graphProtein: event.target.value });
    this.handleGraphChange();
  }
  handleCarbChange = (event) => {
    this.setState({ graphCarb: event.target.value });
    this.handleGraphChange();
  }
  handleSugarChange = (event) => {
    this.setState({ graphSugar: event.target.value });
    this.handleGraphChange();
  }
  handleGraphChange = () => {
    this.setState({ 
      series: [{
        data: [
          this.state.graphProtein,
          this.state.graphCarb,
          this.state.graphSugar
        ]
      }]
    });
  }


This is the end of the series! Did you miss any of the five posts? Check out the overview post and get caught up.

Eric Bishard
About the Author

Eric Bishard

Eric Bishard is a Developer Advocate and former member of the KendoReact team at Progress. A software engineer with experience building web based applications with a focus on components for user interfaces in Angular and React, Eric works with @Couchbase, tweets @httpJunkie and blogs at ReactStateofMind.com.

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