How to create scatter chart in React Bootstrap ?

Scatter plots are used to observe relationship between variables and uses dots to represent the relationship between them. Scatter plots are widely used to represent relation among variables and how a change in one affects the other.

Creating React Application And Installing Module:

  • Step 1: Create a React application using the following command.
    npx create-react-app foldername
  • Step 2: After creating your project folder i.e. foldername, move to it using the following command.
    cd foldername
  • Step 3: After creating the ReactJS application, Install the required modules using the following command.
    npm install --save mdbreact react-chartjs-2
  • Step 4: Add Bootstrap CSS and fontawesome CSS to index.js.
    import '@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/css/all.min.css';  
    import 'bootstrap-css-only/css/bootstrap.min.css';  
    import 'mdbreact/dist/css/mdb.css';

Project Structure: It will look like the following.

Project Structure

Example: Now write down the following code in the App.js file. Here, App is our default component where we have written our code.

App.js




import React from "react";
import { MDBContainer } from "mdbreact";
import { Scatter } from "react-chartjs-2";
  
const App = () => {
  
// Sample data
const data = {
      datasets: [
        {
          backgroundColor: 'green',
          label: 'projectile path',
          data: [
            {
              x: 1,
              y: 19
            },
            {
              x: 2,
              y: 18.5
            },
            {
              x: 3,
              y: 17.6
            },
            {
              x: 4,
              y: 16.8
            },
            {
              x: 5,
              y: 14
            },
            {
              x: 6,
              y: 12
            },
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  
return (
    <MDBContainer>
    <Scatter data={data} />
    </MDBContainer>
);
}
  
export default App;


Step to Run Application: Run the application using the following command from the root directory of the project:

npm start

Output: Now open your browser and go to http://localhost:3000/, you will see the following output:

Output



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