Laravel 9 ChartJS Chart Example Tutorial

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Today our leading topic is laravel 9 chartjs. We will look at an example of laravel 9 chartjs ajax example. I explained simply step by step how to create a chart in laravel 9. This tutorial will give you a simple example of how to use chartjs in laravel 9. Here, Creating a basic example of chartjs laravel 9 examples.

you can simply use Line Charts, Bar Charts, Pie Charts, Area Charts, etc using chartjs js.

Chartjs is a js library, this library through we can use bar chart, line chart, area chart, column chart, etc. chartjs is a open-source chart library. chartjs also provide several theme and graph that way you can use more chart from here : chartjs Site.

In this example, we will create some dummy users records and then we will display a line chart with all months of current years. so let’s follow the below step and add a chart in your laravel 9 app.

Step 1: Install Laravel 9

This is optional; however, if you have not created the laravel app, then you may go ahead and execute the below command:

composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app

Step 2: Create Route

first of all we will create simple route for creating simple line chart. so let’s add simple routes as like bellow:

routes/web.php

<?php
  
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
  
use App\Http\Controllers\ChartJSController;
  
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/
  
Route::get('chart', [ChartJSController::class, 'index']);

Step 3: Create Controller

Here, we will create new controller as ChartJSController. so let’s add bellow code on that controller file.

app/Http/Controllers/ChartJSController.php

<?php
  
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
    
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\User;
use DB;
    
class ChartJSController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Write code on Method
     *
     * @return response()
     */
    public function index()
    {
        $users = User::select(DB::raw("COUNT(*) as count"), DB::raw("MONTHNAME(created_at) as month_name"))
                    ->whereYear('created_at', date('Y'))
                    ->groupBy(DB::raw("Month(created_at)"))
                    ->pluck('count', 'month_name');
 
        $labels = $users->keys();
        $data = $users->values();
              
        return view('chart', compact('labels', 'data'));
    }
}

Step 4: Create Blade File:

here, we need to create blade file and in this blade file we use highchart js and use their code.

resources/views/chart.blade.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Laravel 9 ChartJS Chart Example - ItSolutionStuff.com</title>
</head>
    
<body>
    <h1>Laravel 9 ChartJS Chart Example - ItSolutionStuff.com</h1>
    <canvas id="myChart" height="100px"></canvas>
</body>
  
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.0/jquery.min.js" ></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chart.js"></script>
  
<script type="text/javascript">
  
      var labels =  {{ Js::from($labels) }};
      var users =  {{ Js::from($data) }};
  
      const data = {
        labels: labels,
        datasets: [{
          label: 'My First dataset',
          backgroundColor: 'rgb(255, 99, 132)',
          borderColor: 'rgb(255, 99, 132)',
          data: users,
        }]
      };
  
      const config = {
        type: 'line',
        data: data,
        options: {}
      };
  
      const myChart = new Chart(
        document.getElementById('myChart'),
        config
      );
  
</script>
</html>

Step 5: Create Dummy Records:

Here, we need to add some dummy records on users table as monthly wise.

you can create dummy records using laravel tinker command as bellow:

php artisan tinker
User::factory()->count(30)->create()

You need to create users on each month with created date as like bellow screen shot:

Run Laravel App:

All the required steps have been done, now you have to type the given below command and hit enter to run the Laravel app:

php artisan serve

Now, Go to your web browser, type the given URL and view the app output:

http://localhost:8000/chart

Output:

I hope it can help you…