Building Dynamic Bar Charts in Laravel Using Chart.js: A Step-by-Step Guide
3 min readNov 23, 2023
Introduction:
Bar charts are a powerful way to visualize data trends, and integrating them into your Laravel application can provide valuable insights. In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to use Chart.js, a popular JavaScript charting library, to build dynamic bar charts in a Laravel environment.
Prerequisites
Before we start, ensure you have the following:
- A Laravel project set up.
- Basic knowledge of Laravel and JavaScript.
- Composer installed for Laravel dependencies.
Step 1: Install Chart.js via CDN
Let’s begin by including Chart.js in our Laravel project. Open your blade view file (e.g., resources/views/welcome.blade.php) and add the following CDN link in the <head> section:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<!-- Other head elements -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chart.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Your Laravel application content -->
</body>
</html>Step 2: Create a Controller
Generate a controller to handle the chart data. Run the following Artisan command in your terminal:
