Data Visualization
Explore how to use the vue-chartjs plugin and Chart.js library to create accessible, scalable charts in Vue applications. Learn to set up chart data, customize chart types like bar and line charts, and enhance user experience with visual data representation.
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Data visualization is a crucial feature of computers in general. More often than not, we need to visualize data on the web in various forms. For example, we can use pie charts, bar charts, line charts, area charts, and many others. Developing charts ourselves is tedious though. They need to be accessible, easy to read, and automatically scalable, and they need to fit the continuous integration and continuous delivery or deployment (CI/CD) of the website.
Chart.js is a library that helps us integrate many different types of charts into our web applications. Chart.js supports these nine different types of charts:
Area charts: These are used to create areas between two data sets.
Bar charts: These display the classic bars of different lengths to compare quantities.
Bubble charts: These are used to display three-dimensional data on ...